Mobile UAV Control System for Real-Time Flight Path Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current UAV control systems require administrators to return to a monitoring computer to change the flight path, making the process inefficient for real-time control.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a UAV control system, including a GPS, storage, and a processor, allows users to change the flight path directly using a mobile interface, enabling wireless communication and graphical user input to modify and execute new flight paths, with built-in fuel and data storage checks to ensure feasibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the UAV control system requires administrators to return to a monitoring computer to change the flight path, then the control system maintains centralized management and system security, but the operational efficiency and real-time control capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the control system into multiple independent components: a monitoring computer for centralized management and mobile devices for field operations. This segmentation allows administrators to change flight paths directly at the UAV location using mobile devices, eliminating the need to return to the monitoring computer and thereby improving operational efficiency and real-time control capability while maintaining centralized system architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) as intermediaries between the administrator and the UAV control system. These mobile devices run client applications that communicate with the monitoring computer via wireless networks, enabling administrators to perform flight path modifications in the field while the monitoring computer maintains centralized control and security management
2Device complexity
If the system allows flight path changes only through monitoring computer, then system security and centralized control are maintained, but the complexity of the control process increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control system is segmented into a monitoring computer that handles complex security and authorization functions, and mobile devices that provide simplified user interfaces for flight path modification. This division reduces the operational complexity experienced by administrators in the field while maintaining centralized security control
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a client-server architecture where mobile devices run client applications that replicate key control functions available at the monitoring computer. These clients provide simplified interfaces for common operations like flight path modification, reducing the complexity of field operations while the server maintains the complete system control
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient, real-time control of UAV flight paths directly from a mobile device, improving operational efficiency by allowing on-site path modifications and ensuring sufficient resources for tasks.
Implementation Method 1
a current location of the unmanned aerial vehicle is determined using a global position system (GPS)
Data Source
AI summary
A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using an electronic device determines a designated relay station of the UAV using the electronic device, and creates a new flight path for the UAV according to the designated relay station. The method further directs the UAV to fly to the designated relay station upon the condition that the UAV can arrive at the designated relay station, and directs the UAV to fly to a subsequent relay station along the new flight path upon the condition that the UAV has not arrived at an endpoint of the new flight path.