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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
May. 07, 2015
Applicant:
Insitu, Inc. (a Subsidiary of the Boeing Company), Bingen, WA (US);
Inventor:
Darcy Davidson, Dallesport, WA (US);
Assignee:
THE BOEING COMPANY, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); B64D 5/00 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01); G01S 19/07 (2010.01); G01S 19/13 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 5/00 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G01S 19/07 (2013.01); G01S 19/13 (2013.01); B64C 2201/021 (2013.01); B64C 2201/024 (2013.01); B64C 2201/082 (2013.01); B64C 2201/182 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example methods and apparatus to deploy and recover a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle via a non-fixed wing aircraft are described herein. An example method includes tracking a location of a non-fixed wing aircraft in flight, tracking a location of a fixed wing aircraft in flight, positioning the non-fixed wing aircraft relative to the fixed wing aircraft based on the locations of the non-fixed wing aircraft and the fixed wing aircraft and coupling, via a gripper, the fixed wing aircraft to the non-fixed wing aircraft in mid-flight at a recovery location.