UAS Allocation System Matching Capabilities to Tasks
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has created a need for an efficient system to allocate UAS with specific capabilities to customers, as existing solutions lack a centralized platform for matching UAS operational capabilities with customer requests, leading to inefficiencies and high costs.
Innovation Solution
A UAS allocation system that includes a database of registered UAS providers and their operational capabilities, an allocation control circuit that identifies suitable UAS based on customer task parameters, and a notification system to allocate UAS to providers for task execution, facilitating communication and task management across a distributed network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a centralized UAS allocation platform is implemented, then task matching efficiency and operational coordination are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The allocation platform serves multiple functions including task posting, UAS provider registration, capability matching, task assignment, and performance tracking within a single integrated system. This multi-functionality approach consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate systems, improving productivity while managing complexity through functional integration rather than proliferation of separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized allocation platform as an intermediary between customers posting tasks and UAS providers seeking work. This mediator automatically matches tasks with suitable providers based on UAS capabilities, location, and availability, eliminating the need for direct complex negotiations between multiple parties and thereby improving task matching efficiency without requiring each participant to manage complex bilateral coordination.
2Device complexity
If manual UAS allocation processes are used, then system simplicity is maintained, but task execution time and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The allocation platform enables automated self-service functionality where UAS providers can register their capabilities once and have the system automatically match them with suitable tasks based on predefined criteria. The system autonomously performs capability comparison, availability checking, and task assignment without requiring manual intervention for each matching decision, thereby reducing task execution time while maintaining relatively simple operational procedures for users.
Solution Approach 2:
UAS providers pre-register their capabilities, equipment specifications, and availability in the system before tasks are posted. This preliminary action allows the allocation platform to immediately match incoming tasks with pre-qualified providers rather than requiring time-consuming assessments at task assignment time, significantly reducing task execution time while requiring providers to complete registration upfront.
Data Source
AI summary
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to allocate unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Some embodiments, provide UAS allocation systems, comprising: a UAS database that stores for each registered UAS an identifier and corresponding operational capabilities; an allocation control circuit configured to: obtain a first set of multiple task parameters specified by a first customer and corresponding to a requested first predefined task that the customer is requesting a UAS be allocated to perform; identify, from the UAS database, a first UAS having operational capabilities to perform the first set of task parameters while implementing the first task; and cause an allocation notification to be communicated to a first UAS provider, of the multiple UAS providers, associated with the first UAS requesting the first UAS provider to allocate the identified first UAS to implement the first task.