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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2021
Spirent Communications Plc, Crawley, GB;
Jeremy Charles Bennington, Greenwood, IN (US);
Raphael Grech, Torquay, GB;
Dennis Berres, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Rafal Zbikowski, Paignton, GB;
Colin Richard Ford, Carmarthen, GB;
Richard West, Paignton, GB;
Paul Hansen, Cambridge, GB;
Arthur Edward Neeves, Saint Augustine, FL (US);
Esther Anyaegbu, Northampton, GB;
Adam Gleave, Plymouth, GB;
Ronald Toh Ming Wong, Paignton, GB;
Spirent Communications PLC, Crawley, GB;
Abstract
The technology disclosed teaches a method of path planning using a GNSS Forecast, requesting the GNSS Forecast of signal obscuration on behalf of a vehicle travelling in a region, receiving and using the Forecast to plan a path or route that has GNSS signals available over the path or route that satisfy a predetermined criterium. Also taught are GNSS Forecasts and planned paths or routes for a plurality of flying vehicles used by a flight control system, requesting the GNSS Forecast of signal obscuration on behalf of a flying autonomous or automated vehicle travelling in a region, receiving and using the Forecast and to plan a path with GNSS signals available over the path that satisfy predetermined criteria including accommodating real-time changes in flight paths, without leaving space, that satisfies the predetermined criteria. Also taught is certifying performance of GNSS receivers used on a flying vessel.