UAV Trajectory Adjustment for Mid-Flight Autonomous Path Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerial vehicles lack intuitive and easy-to-use systems for users to modify autonomous flight, necessitating manual piloting burdens and limiting the ability to quickly intervene or deviate from predetermined paths.
Innovation Solution
A system with separate user interfaces for effecting and modifying autonomous flight, allowing users to input commands through intuitive devices like touchscreens or control sticks, reducing manual piloting burden while enabling adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If autonomous flight control is implemented, then the burden of manual piloting is reduced, but the ability of users to quickly intervene or deviate from predetermined paths is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between autonomous flight mode and manual intervention mode. The flight control system accepts both autonomous navigation commands and real-time user inputs, allowing seamless transition between predetermined paths and user-modified trajectories based on current flight conditions and user needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The flight control system serves multiple functions: it executes autonomous flight plans, processes real-time user inputs, and integrates both control modes into a unified system. This multi-functional approach allows the same system to reduce piloting burden while maintaining user intervention capability.
2Device complexity
If a single user interface is used for autonomous flight control, then the system is simpler, but it cannot distinguish between commands to effect flight and commands to modify flight
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is segmented into distinct input mechanisms: one interface for issuing autonomous flight commands and another for modifying flight paths. This segmentation allows the system to clearly differentiate between flight initiation commands and trajectory modification commands, improving operational clarity.
Solution Approach 2:
The flight control system acts as an intermediary that receives and distinguishes between different types of user inputs. It processes commands from the first user interface to effect autonomous flight and commands from the second user interface to modify flight paths, mediating between user intentions and vehicle responses.
Data Source
AI summary
An aircraft includes at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, where the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the aircraft to at least: in response receiving a first input, control the aircraft to effect an autonomous flight using a first parameter and a second parameter, and during the autonomous flight, in response to receiving a second input, modify the first parameter to obtain a modified first parameter, and control the aircraft to continue the autonomous flight based on the modified first parameter and the second parameter. The first parameter and the second parameter are associated with an autonomous process of the aircraft to achieve a task of the autonomous flight. The second parameter is unchanged.