3D Aircraft Flight Path Setting via Tracked Physical Motion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for setting flight paths for unmanned aircraft are complex, particularly in three-dimensional environments, and require precise numerical input, making it difficult to navigate around physical structures and configure on-board device orientations.
Innovation Solution
A system that displays a virtual three-dimensional model of the environment, allowing users to intuitively set a target flight path by tracking a physical object's movement and generating a continuous path, which is then used to guide the aircraft, incorporating features like obstacle avoidance and camera control parameters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional numerical input methods are used to set flight paths, then precise control parameters can be obtained, but the operation complexity and time required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses augmented reality to create a virtual copy of the physical environment where users can visually define flight paths by placing markers on virtual structures. This copies the real-world spatial relationships into a virtual interface, allowing intuitive path setting without numerical input while maintaining precision through the virtual model's accurate representation of physical dimensions and obstacle positions.
Solution Approach 2:
The augmented reality overlay acts as an intermediary between the user and the complex flight path configuration. Instead of directly manipulating numerical parameters, users interact with visual markers placed on virtual structures, and the system automatically calculates the corresponding flight path parameters. This intermediary layer simplifies the interface while preserving measurement precision through automatic coordinate transformation.
2Manufacturing precision
If detailed numerical parameters are input for each point on the flight path, then accurate flight control is achieved, but the time and effort required for configuration increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically calculating flight path parameters, obstacle avoidance routes, and device orientation settings based on the visual markers placed in the augmented reality environment. Instead of requiring users to input parameters point-by-point, the system pre-computes the entire flight path configuration from the visual marker positions, significantly reducing configuration time while maintaining accuracy through automated coordinate system transformations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service by automatically generating complete flight path parameters, including three-dimensional coordinates, orientation angles, and obstacle avoidance maneuvers, based solely on the user's visual marker placement. The system self-calculates all necessary navigation parameters and device control settings without requiring manual numerical input, thereby reducing configuration time while ensuring precision through automated computational geometry.
3Adaptability or versatility
If complex three-dimensional flight paths are set using conventional methods, then navigation around physical structures is possible, but the difficulty of configuration increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional map-based interfaces to three-dimensional augmented reality visualization, allowing users to place markers on virtual representations of physical structures in 3D space. This dimensional enhancement enables intuitive configuration of complex three-dimensional flight paths, including over-flights and under-flights of obstacles, by leveraging the user's natural spatial understanding of the physical environment rather than requiring abstract numerical coordinate input.
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AI summary
A method for setting a target flight path of an aircraft in a physical environment, the method includes: displaying a virtual three-dimensional model corresponding to the physical environment; setting a start point in the virtual three-dimensional model according to a user input indicative of a position of the start point; continuously tracking a trajectory of a physical object moved in a space corresponding to the virtual three-dimensional model while displaying within the virtual three-dimensional model a continuous path corresponding to the trajectory of the physical object from the start point; setting an end point of the continuous path in the virtual three-dimensional model according to a user input indicative of a position of the end point; and generating the target flight path of the aircraft in the physical environment based on the continuous path from the start point to the end point in the virtual three-dimensional model.