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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 04, 2022
Verity Ag, Zurich, CH;
Federico Augugliaro, Zurich, CH;
Markus Waibel, Zurich, CH;
Markus Hehn, Zurich, CH;
Raffaello D'Andrea, Wollerau, CH;
Luca Gherardi, Oberrieden, CH;
Verity AG, Zurich, CH;
Abstract
A system comprising, a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and a single controller for controlling said plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, wherein the single controller is configured such that it can broadcast a command to all of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles so that each of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles receive the same command; and wherein each of the unmanned aerial vehicles comprise a memory which stores a plurality of predefined flight paths each of which is assigned to a respective command; and wherein each of the unmanned aerial vehicles comprise a processor which can, (i) receive a command which has been broadcasted by the single controller to said plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, (ii) retrieve from the memory of that aerial vehicle the flight path which is assigned in the memory to that command, and (iii) operate the aerial vehicle to follow the retrieved flight path. There is further provided a corresponding method of controlling a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles.