Systems and methods for unmanned aircraft system collision avoidance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8965679-B2
Application number	US-201313781247-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 28, 2013
Priority date	Jun 11, 2012
Publication date	Feb 24, 2015
Grant date	Feb 24, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods are operable maintain a proscribed Self Separation distance between an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and an object. In an example system, consecutive intruder aircraft locations relative to corresponding locations of a self aircraft are determined, wherein the determining is based on current velocities of the intruder aircraft and the self aircraft, and wherein the determining is based on current flight paths of the intruder aircraft and the self aircraft. At least one evasive maneuver for the self aircraft is computed using a processing system based on the determined consecutive intruder aircraft locations relative to the corresponding locations of the self aircraft.

First claim

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. A method, comprising:
monitoring separation distances between an intruder aircraft and a self aircraft, the monitoring comprising;
periodically determining a current separation distance between an intruder aircraft and a self aircraft, wherein the current separation distance is a distance between the intruder aircraft and the self aircraft determined at a current tim…

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Euteneuer Eric
• Elgersma Michael Ray

Classifications

• G01S13/933 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G01S5/0072

  Physics · mapped topic

• B62D15/0265

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G08G5/26

  Physics · mapped topic

• G08G5/80

  Physics · mapped topic