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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2017
Bae Systems Plc, London, GB;
Roderick Buchanan, Preston, GB;
Richard Charles Freeman, Preston, GB;
David William Thomas Clark, Preston, GB;
Andrew James Thomas, Preston, GB;
BAE Systems plc, London, GB;
Abstract
A method for coordinating a plurality of vehicles () comprising: defining, as a command vehicle (C), a vehicle in the plurality; storing, by one or more storage devices () located on one or more of the vehicles (), a list of capabilities of each vehicle (); receiving, by one or more processors () on the command vehicle (C), a specification of a goal; based on the stored vehicle capabilities, allocating, by the one or more processors (), to one or more of the vehicles (), one or more tasks, the one or more tasks being such that, if each of those tasks was to be performed, the goal would be accomplished; and sending, from the command vehicle (C), to each vehicle () to which a task has been allocated, a specification of the one or more tasks allocated to that vehicle ().