431 results about "Ground control station" patented technology

An aerial vehicle system for gathering data may comprise a Waypoint Location, wherein the Waypoint Location comprises an arresting cable; a Ground Control Station, wherein the Ground Control Station comprises a charging cable; and an aerial vehicle, wherein the aerial vehicle comprises an onboard battery, a capturing hook and a sensor payload for generating surveillance data. The aerial vehicle may be configured to autonomously travel between the Waypoint Location and the Ground Control Station. The aerial vehicle may be configured to couple with the arresting cable via the capturing hook. The aerial vehicle may be configured to electronically couple with the charging cable via the capturing hook to facilitate charging the aerial vehicle's onboard battery.

There is provided herein a system for providing a stabilized video image with continuously scrollable and automatically controllable Line-Of-Site (LOS) and adjustable Field-Of-View (FOV) for use in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), with no moving parts. The system comprising a plurality of fixed oriented sensors disposed in one or more of orientations, a computing unit comprising processor adapted to define a position of a window of interest (WOI) within one or more field-of-views of said plurality of sensors, read pixels data from said WOI, compensate, in real time, for changes in a target position relative to the UAV and for the UAV attitude by continuously scrolling the position of said WOI and provide a continuous high frame rate video image based on the pixels data from said WOI. The system may also provide retrievable high resolution images of the scene, to be stored in internal memory for later retrieve or transmitted to a Ground Control Station in parallel to the real-time video.

The present application discloses an open system architecture and software system for plug and play modular mission payloads in aerial vehicles. The improved software moves the control function of mission payloads away from the ground station and into the aerial vehicle. The plug & play web-based payload interface software resides in a payload interface controller in the vehicle, and this is networked via a uniform resource locator (URL) address to a ground control station. Consequently, when new payloads are added to the system, integration issues and costs are minimized.

The invention discloses an unmanned helicopter flight control system which comprises an onboard unit and a ground control station unit. The onboard unit comprises a flight control computer, a sensor module, a servo control module, a wireless transmission module, a remote-controlled receiver and an actuating mechanism. The ground control station unit comprises a measuring and controlling terminal having a wireless transmission function; the measuring and controlling terminal comprises a PC (personal computer) console and a remote control. The system comprises an automatic control mode and a manual control mode and has the advantages of being small in size and light in weight. The invention further discloses a control method of the unmanned helicopter flight control system, and the method includes that output quantity is calculated and controlled by a closed-loop control algorithm to control the actuating mechanism to operate. By the method, complexity in manipulating a model helicopter is reduced, and the helicopter is enabled to have the basic capacity in automatic flight. Therefore, quite good society and economy benefits are achieved.

The invention discloses an unmanned plane autonomous flight cloud control system. The system comprises a ground control station, a cloud server, an unmanned plane device and an aerial photography device. Real-time autonomous flight of an unmanned plane involves establishment of a course planning control analysis module based on real-time information, the ground control station carries out preliminary automatic planning of a course by use of flight coordinate scope information, in case of low-attitude flight, aerial photography data acquisition is carried out on landform space information by use of the aerial photography device, the information is transmitted to the cloud server by use of a 4G network through the ground control station, three-dimensional real-time visualization space modeling of aerial photography data is carried out by use of a cloud processing technology, through combination with a DEM and space topology relation, real-time course correction is carried out on an unmanned plane task flight preliminary course, flight control signals are returned to an autopilot, and thus autonomous flight of the unmanned plane is realized.

A system and method for transmitting still images and a video feed from an unmanned aerial vehicle to a ground station is disclosed. The system includes an aircraft including a digital video camera to capture still images and video frames of an object. A video encoder is coupled to the camera to provide a video output including video packets. A file server is coupled to the camera to provide a still image output including image data packets. A multiplexer is coupled to the video output and the still image output. The multiplexer produces a data transmission including the video packets and the image data packets. A transmitter sends the data transmission to the ground station. The ground station receives the data transmission and demultiplexes the packets into separate video and image data packets. The ground control station may select the ratio the video stream images in relation to the still image to be transmitted from the aircraft.

An avionic system and ground station for aircraft out of route management and alarm communications composed of an avionic device, which is fitted onboard the aircraft, with a memory unit for storing the flight paths data, runways, orography, and obstacles; processors to compute the stored or received data, available from sensors monitoring the onboard situation. Processors will compute commands to be sent to the aircraft's autopilot to temporarily take over the aircraft control and return it to pre-set flight levels or spatial positions; communication devices suitable for transmitting the real time onboard situation to ground control stations when potentially dangerous events occur.

A system and method are provided for employing local, opportunistic Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) information to augment other source “knowledge” of local aircraft position information for improving situational awareness in areas lacking ADS-B coverage provided by other aircraft control agencies including the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), other Civil Aviation Authorities (CAAs), and/or other Air Traffic Control (ATC) entities. Locally-received, e.g., in a vicinity of a UAV or sUAS, ADS-B positional information is received by a UAV, sUAS or associated ground control station and integrated on a display component of the ground control station, e.g., a pilot display, for the UAV or sUAS. Received positional information is forwarded to other interested users/systems, including those associated with agencies or entities in overall tactical, operational or surveillance control of a particular area of operations, as appropriate as an integrated situational awareness map display picture.

The invention provides a distributed task scheduling method for an unmanned aerial vehicle fleet in a dynamic environment and aims to achieve that the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet get rid of the limits of a ground control station in the dynamic environment and autonomously conduct task scheduling, and the real-time performance of task scheduling is improved. The distributed task scheduling methodis implemented by the steps that a decision-making unmanned aerial vehicle allocates a task to each unmanned aerial vehicle and sends an execution instruction to each unmanned aerial vehicle; all the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet execute the tasks according to the execution instructions sent by the decision-making unmanned aerial vehicle, and communicate with the decision-making unmanned aerialvehicle through a heartbeat mechanism; the decision-making unmanned aerial vehicle conducts optimal scheduling on the tasks of all the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet; the unmanned aerial vehicle fleetexecute the tasks which are determined again according to the flight paths respectively, and formation is kept; the decision-making unmanned aerial vehicle monitors the task completion conditions of all the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet, and when all the tasks are completed, the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet makes a return voyage. By means of the distributed task scheduling method, the unmanned aerial vehicle fleet can select a correct scheduling method according to the change of the dynamic environment, the real-time performance of task scheduling is improved, and the unmanned aerial vehiclefleet can autonomously execute the task.

The invention relates to a traffic information acquisition system based on an unmanned aerial vehicle and a processing method of the traffic information acquisition system. The traffic information acquisition system comprises the unmanned aerial vehicle, a control system of the unmanned aerial vehicle, a ground control station and an image processing module, wherein an image acquisition device is arranged on the unmanned aerial vehicle, the image acquisition device is connected with a wireless communication device, and the wireless communication device is used for performing communication and information transmission with the ground control station. According to the traffic information acquisition system disclosed by the invention, the unmanned aerial vehicle is utilized for carrying a high-definition video camera or an infrared device, and the unmanned aerial vehicle can fly automatically according to the planned airline and the height for performing holographic road traffic information acquisition. Therefore, the purposes of acquiring point, line and surface data based on the unmanned aerial vehicle and developing new applications in the field of multi-directional traffic are achieved.

The invention discloses a real-time tracking method and system for a ground moving object based on an UAV. An objection detection and identification module of a ground control station is started to process an image sequence returned from a camera, and the size and central coordinate of a target rectangular frame in a display screen of the ground station are obtained; an object tracking module is started, an algorithm fusion strategy is used to track an object, and if tracking is effective, an object positioning result is output to a tracking instruction generation module; if the object is not positioned, an object searching module is started, and the object is searched and an object positioning result is output to the tracking instruction generation module; and according to the requirement that an object image needs to be positioned in the center of the display screen of the ground station, the tracking instruction generation module generates a UAV position and posture adjusting instruction, and uploads the instruction to a UAV flight control system via a wireless transmission device to adjust the posture in real time. According to the system and method, the matching efficiency is high, realization is easy, the object can be identified effectively, and influence of background noises is avoided.

The invention relates to an environment-friendly emergent unmanned aerial vehicle integrated system which is characterized by comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned aerial vehicle load monitoring system, a ground control station and a ground data processing center. The unmanned aerial vehicle load monitoring system comprises a load box, an unmanned aerial vehicle special camera, a thermal infrared camera and a wireless high-definition video transmission system, wherein the load box is installed on the unmanned aerial vehicle, and the unmanned aerial vehicle special camera, the thermal infrared camera and the wireless high-definition video transmission system are installed on the load box and are connected to transmit video image information to the ground control station in a real-time mode. The ground control station is communicated with the unmanned aerial vehicle through a wireless communication manner to control an airline planning of the unmanned aerial vehicle and intuitively displays airplane information and the video image information. A small-size onboard imaging spectrometer is connected with a DGPS/ IMU positioning and directional system. The environment-friendly emergent unmanned aerial vehicle integrated system is reasonable in design, capable of playing a positive role in accidental environmental pollution accidents and conventional environmental monitoring, and the ability of fast processing and analyzing environment emergent monitoring data is improved.

The invention discloses a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle self-adaptive landing method and system. When an unmanned aerial vehicle takes off, a ground control station (such as a tablet computer, a cell phone or other control equipment) chooses an approximately proper area for the unmanned aerial vehicle to land in. When the unmanned aerial vehicle receives the order to land, it starts the landing mode and waits the landing action to take place. The landing face of the landing area is then checked to see if it is suitable for the unmanned aerial vehicle to land or not. If it is suitable, the unmanned aerial vehicle begins to land and the landing mode ends; if it is not suitable, the pose of the unmanned aerial vehicle is changed for continued landing. According to the invention, it is possible to realize safe and reliable self-landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle even at a place where the landform is complex.

The invention discloses an overhead high-voltage line intelligent autonomous flight tour inspection system and method along wires. The system comprises a ground control station, laser radar, a laser radar data processing module and a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, the laser radar and the laser radar data processing module are both arranged on the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, the laser radar is used for acquiring information of the angle and the distance of a high-voltage line relative to the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle, the laser radar data processing module transmits theabove information to the ground control station in a wireless mode, a motor driving module of the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle performs rotating speed control on propeller motors in the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle under the control of an unmanned aerial vehicle control center, the unmanned aerial vehicle and the overhead high-voltage line maintain a fixed distance, and the unmannedaerial vehicle performs cruise flight along the overhead high-voltage line. According to the system and method, in the tour inspection process, personnel operation is avoided, and high-efficiency, multifunctional and omnibearing intelligent overhead high-voltage line monitoring tour inspection can be realized.

Disclosed is a method of controlling a fleet of drones. A method in which a ground control station (GCS) controls a fleet of drones includes registering, by the GCS which is located on the ground, stores information about the drones, and controls the drones, all the drones constituting the fleet in a fleet list, configuring the fleet by synchronizing a physical position and a logical position for each of all the registered drones, controlling a form of the fleet based on a mission of the fleet or a peripheral environment having an influence on a flight of the fleet, and maintaining the fleet by immediately reflecting inclusion or departure in fleet information when the drone constituting the fleet is incorporated into or departs from the fleet.

The present invention proposes an automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) architecture and process, in which priority aircraft and ADS-B IN and radar traffic information are included in the transmission of data through the telemetry communications to a remote ground control station. The present invention further proposes methods for displaying general aviation traffic information in three and/or four dimension trajectories using an industry standard Earth browser for increased situation awareness and enhanced visual acquisition of traffic for conflict detection. The present invention enable the applications of enhanced visual acquisition of traffic, traffic alerts, and en-route and terminal surveillance used to augment pilot situational awareness through ADS-B IN display and information in three or four dimensions for self-separation awareness.

The invention relates to a system and a method for measuring an unmanned aerial vehicle electrical line patrol on the basis of images. A box body comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle body, a camera, an image transmission unit, a wireless control unit, a ground control station and a reference target which is arranged on the ground; the reference target is used for calibrating a three-dimensional scene and building the corresponding relation of the practical size of the scene and picture pixel values; the image transmission unit is respectively connected with the camera and the ground control station, and the wireless control unit is respectively connected with the unmanned aerial vehicle body and the ground control station; and the ground control station controls the flying and hovering of the unmanned aerial vehicle body through the wireless control unit, the images of the camera are obtained through the image transmission unit, a camera visual three-dimensional model is built according to the reference target and the images of the camera, a reference line is selected, and whether a line is safe or not is judged according to a distance from the measurement point of the three-dimensional model to the reference line. When the unmanned aerial vehicle is hovered, coordinate system measurement is carried out on a monitoring picture of a camera through a three-dimensional calibration method, and thus, automatic distance measurement is realized.

The invention relates to a flying platform for an agricultural unmanned plane, a control system of an agricultural unmanned plane, and a control method of an agricultural unmanned plane. The control system of an agricultural unmanned plane includes a global positioning system base station, a ground control station and a flying platform for an agricultural unmanned plane, wherein the flying platform for an agricultural unmanned plane includes a plane body, a flight controller, a wind resistant rotor and multifunctional wings; the flight controller, the wind resistant rotor and the multifunctional wings are arranged on the plane body; the multifunctional wings are each provided with a fixed wing flight mode and a multi-rotors flight mode, relative to the plane body; each multifunctional wing includes a fixed wing and multi-rotors on the fixed wing; the axis of the fixed wing is perpendicular to the axis of the plane body, and is connected with a steering engine on the plane body; the flight controller controls the steering engine to drive the fixed wing to rotate so as to switch the fixed wing flight mode and the multi-rotors flight mode; and the flight attitude of the flying platform can be balanced and stabilized by means of adjustment of the rotation direction and the speed of the wind resistant rotor. The invention also discloses a control method of the flying platform.

The invention relates to a real-time line walking system, in particular to a real-time line walking system of an unmanned aerial vehicle, which comprises unmanned aircraft equipment, a ground control station, a 3G (the 3rd generation telecommunication) channel and an internet. During work, the ground control station controls flight of the unmanned aircraft equipment, the unmanned aircraft equipment carries image acquisition equipment and an image transmission system, lines can be photographed, images are transmitted to the internet by the image transmission system via the 3G channel, and a ground monitoring center checks transmitted real-time video after logging in the internet and realizes positioning according to a GPS (global positioning system). The real-time line walking system which adopts a line walking mode can reduce labor intensity of line walking operation, and efficiency of the line walking operation is improved.

The invention provides a precise landing automatic control method for a traffic information collecting unmanned aerial vehicle. The method comprises the following steps that S1, the unmanned aerial vehicle flies to a primary target position according to a GPS; S2, the unmanned aerial vehicle and a ground control station are in local area wireless network connection; S3, the unmanned aerial vehicle sends a secondary locating request to the ground control station, meanwhile, video locating is started, a first locating light source is started after the ground control station receives the secondary locating request, the unmanned aerial vehicle captures the position of the first locating light source through video, the position information of the first locating light source is obtained through an image processing method, and the unmanned aerial vehicle flies to a secondary target position; S4, the unmanned aerial vehicle sends a third-stage locating request to the ground control station, a second locating light source is started after the ground control station receives the three-stage locating request, the unmanned aerial vehicle captures the position of the second locating light source through video, the position information of the second locating light source is obtained through the image processing method, and the unmanned aerial vehicle lands on the ground station. According to the method, landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle can be precisely and automatically controlled.

The invention mainly provides a flight monitoring device for carrying out monitoring on a flight state of an unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle is provided with a detection device for detecting a flight state parameter of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The flight monitoring device comprises a data acquisition module for collecting a detection signal of the detection device, a monitoring module for generating operation state information of the unmanned aerial vehicle based on a pre-stored reference condition and the collected detection signal, and a network communication module for transmitting the operation state information to a third-party server. In addition, the invention also provides an unmanned aerial vehicle including the flight monitoring device, a ground control station and a corresponding flight monitoring method. According to the scheme, a manned aerial vehicle operator can carry out maintenance and real-time fault monitoring on the unmanned aerial vehicle regularly and timely, thereby effectively improving the flight safety factor of the unmanned aerial vehicle and reducing the probability of fault occurrence during the flight process of the unmanned aerial vehicle.

The invention discloses a space on-orbit fault removing operation ground simulation experiment system. The space on-orbit fault removing operation ground simulation experiment system comprises a simulation service spacecraft, a simulation target spacecraft, a microgravity simulation air-floating platform and a simulation ground control station. The simulation service spacecraft and the simulation target spacecraft operate on the microgravity simulation air-floating platform and communicate with the simulation ground control station through wireless communication. The simulation service spacecraft is used for simulating a spacecraft with on-orbit operation and service capabilities. The simulation target spacecraft is used for simulating a spacecraft with on-orbit faults. According to the space on-orbit fault removing operation ground simulation experiment system, on-orbit approach and on-orbit capture can be simulated, and an automatic control mode, a man-in-loop control mode and other various control modes are achieved.

The invention discloses a flight monitoring service method and a system thereof. The method is characterized by through a black box of a low altitude flight aircraft, acquiring a position and flight path information of an unmanned aerial vehicle; after carrying out correlation processing, using an unmanned aerial vehicle air traffic control system to send peripheral flight path information of the unmanned aerial vehicle to an unmanned aerial vehicle ground control station. The system comprises a civil aviation secondary radar, a low-altitude radar, radar access equipment, mobile acquisition equipment, an ADSB ground station, mobile conversion equipment, an automatic navigator, a GPS radio station, ADSC information conversion equipment, mobile communication equipment, a Big Dipper airborne navigator, a flight monitoring cloud server and a flight monitoring information application system. The method and the system of the invention have an advantage that dynamic data of an acquired unmanned aerial vehicle flight path, a state and the like can be taken as a monitoring information source and is transmitted to an air traffic control system currently used by military and civil aviation in real time so that a management department can conveniently monitor a flight state of a low altitude airspace unmanned aerial vehicle, and a blind area of current low-altitude spatial domain monitoring is compensated.