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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2020
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Aaron Mitchell Hitchcock, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Hunter Nelson Morgan, Hurst, TX (US);
Textron Innovations Inc., Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
A method of arbitrating communications between unmanned aerial system (UAS) devices includes: receiving, at a first communication component of a first UAS device, information for transmission to a destination associated with a second UAS device; inserting, by a first arbiter executing on the first communication component, a message sequence indication into a payload of a data packet that contains the information; transmitting, by the first arbiter, a respective copy of the data packet over each of a plurality of communication links established between the first and second UAS devices; receiving, at a second communication component of the second UAS device, one or more copies of the data packet; and determining in accordance with the message sequence indication, by a second arbiter executing on the second communication component, for each received copy of the data packet, whether to deliver the information to the destination.