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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Kitty Hawk Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Cameron Robertson, San Mateo, CA (US);

Joseph Roop, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Todd Reichert, Mountain View, CA (US);

Damon Vander Lind, Oakland, CA (US);

Assignee:

Kitty Hawk Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64D 17/62 (2006.01); B64D 17/80 (2006.01); G05D 1/08 (2006.01); B64D 45/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); B64D 17/62 (2013.01); B64D 17/80 (2013.01); B64D 45/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/042 (2013.01); G05D 1/0808 (2013.01); B64C 2201/185 (2013.01); B64D 2045/0085 (2013.01);
Abstract

An automated aircraft recovery system is disclosed. In various embodiments, the system includes an interface configured to receive sensor data; and a control mechanism configured to: perform automatically a recovery action that is determined based at least in part on the sensor data. In various embodiments, the control mechanism may determine an expected state of an aircraft, determine whether a state of the aircraft matches the expected state, and in the event the state of the aircraft does not match the expected state, perform the recovery action.


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