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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2015
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Cherry Cwalina, San Diego, CA (US);
Gary Howland, Stratford, CT (US);
Luca F. Bertuccelli, West Hartford, CT (US);
Margaret M. Lampazzi, Oxford, CT (US);
Robert Pupalaikis, Palm Beach Gardens, FL (US);
Thomas Guido, Stormville, NY (US);
James S. Magson, North Haven, CT (US);
John G. Schoenfeld, Plantsville, CT (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of teaming a manned aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle includes inputting to a controller in a manned vehicle coordinates for an area of interest, plotting a course to the area of interest in a navigation computer operatively connected to the controller, identifying one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near the area of interest, communicating to a ground controller rendezvous coordinates for one of the one or more UAVs, and negotiating a control hand-off of the one of the one or more UAVs from the ground controller to the controller.