A functionality utilizing a centrally controlled strategy for continuous communication to specific autonomous vehicles, or drones, that are designed for extreme conditions and assigned specific missions with the ability to be replaced during the mission. This functionality is an improvement on existing swarm and leader-follower tactics as it retains control of the drones at a central command center, allowing the drones to both receive individual commands from the hub but also operate independently of it with direct pilot control. This direct communication allows for real time process of ordered substitution to replace any drone during the mission.

A functionality utilizing a centrally controlled strategy for continuous communication to specific autonomous vehicles, or drones, that are designed for extreme conditions and assigned specific missions with the ability to be replaced during the mission. This functionality is an improvement on existing swarm and leader-follower tactics as it retains control of the drones at a central command center, allowing the drones to both receive individual commands from the hub but also operate independently of it with direct pilot control. This direct communication allows for real time process of ordered substitution to replace any drone during the mission.

In an embodiment an unmanned aerial vehicle comprises a central body and a plurality of support structures extending outwards from the central body. Each support structure supports a rotor blade assembly and is provided with one or more deformable portions. The rotor blade assembly defines a rotational axis of one or more rotor blades associated with the rotor blade assembly.

An aircraft includes a fuselage that includes a nose portion, a cabin portion, an underwing portion, and an aft portion. The nose portion includes sensors that generate sensor data. The cabin portion is aft of the nose portion and includes a passenger cabin. The underwing portion is aft of the cabin portion and includes a wing attachment region and a battery bay. The aft portion is aft of the underwing portion. A wing assembly including motor mounts and control surfaces is attached to the wing attachment region such that the underwing portion of the fuselage is located under the wing assembly. A tail assembly is attached to the aft portion. The electric motors are attached to motor mounts such that the propellers are in a pusher configuration facing rearward. An autonomous control system controls the electric motors and control surfaces based on the sensor data.

An aircraft includes a fuselage that includes a nose portion, a cabin portion, an underwing portion, and an aft portion. The nose portion includes sensors that generate sensor data. The cabin portion is aft of the nose portion and includes a passenger cabin. The underwing portion is aft of the cabin portion and includes a wing attachment region and a battery bay. The aft portion is aft of the underwing portion. A wing assembly including motor mounts and control surfaces is attached to the wing attachment region such that the underwing portion of the fuselage is located under the wing assembly. A tail assembly is attached to the aft portion. The electric motors are attached to motor mounts such that the propellers are in a pusher configuration facing rearward. An autonomous control system controls the electric motors and control surfaces based on the sensor data.

The Multi-Rotor Safety Shield (MRSS) provides a complete and substantial encasement system which can be secured about a Drone, protecting a multitude of aircraft components from contact with any outside disturbance and which can protect the sensitive components from dust, water, wind, rain, snow, fingers, toes, appendages of any kind, and atmospheric changes as example, from disabling the Drone and can protect people, places or things from high velocity spinning exposed rotor/propellers. The MRSS provides rigid non-permeable platform for attaching or incorporating additional safety devices as found in the Drone industry (or other industries) resulting in a safety device that completely prevents the loss a Drone due to the catastrophic failure of any Drone system or combination of systems which would typically result in rapid decent, and/or uncontrolled flight. The MRSS makes Drones safe near humans and safe to use around public gatherings, stadium events, accident scenes, disaster search and rescue and disaster relief, and indoors for the security and communications markets among others expanding the availability of Drones to further assist humanity.

A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft system (UAS) may be uniquely capable of VTOL via a folded wing design while also configured for powered flight as the wings are extended. In a powered flight regime with wings extended, the VTOL UAS may maintain controlled powered flight as a twin pusher canard design. In a zero airspeed (or near zero airspeed) nose up attitude in a VTOL flight regime with the wings folded, the unmanned aircraft system may maintain controlled flight using main engine thrust as well as vectored thrust as a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. An airborne transition from VTOL flight regime to powered flight and vice versa may allow the VTOL UAS continuous controlled flight in each regime.

A falling-resistant and anti-drifting unmanned aerial vehicle has a main body and at least one rotor wing thereon. Both sides of the main body have a wing with an airbag filled with gas lighter than air. Bulges protruding downwards are arranged at the bottoms of the airbag. The two airbags are at the same height symmetrically arranged based on the main body. The airbag can function as an undercarriage when the aircraft lands down, and as a buffer when crash landing and then reduce damage to the main body. If the aircraft falls in water, the aircraft can float on the water to avoid damage caused by sinking. As bulges protruding downwards are arranged at the bottoms of the airbags, in spraying operation, side wing can be relatively well baffled by the bulges in case of side wing blowing in the flying process, resulting in less droplets draft.

A process for controlling a plurality of mobile-radio equipped robots in a talkgroup includes receiving, at a mobile-radio equipped robot via a wireless communications interface comprising one of an infrastructure wireless communication interface for communicating with an infrastructure radio access network (RAN) and an ad-hoc wireless communication interface for communicating with an ad-hoc network, a group voice call containing a voice-command. The mobile-radio equipped robot determines that it is a target of the group voice call, and responsively text-converts the voice-command into an actionable text-based command. The mobile-radio equipped robot subsequently operates a mechanical drive element in accordance with the actionable text-based command.

[Problem] Provided are a flying object operating device, a malfunction preventing method for a flying object operating device, a flying object thrust generating device, a parachute or paraglider deploying device, and an airbag device, each capable of improving reliability in terms of safety. A flying object igniter includes an ignition unit, an ignition abnormality detection unit which detects an operating state of the ignition unit, a flight state detection unit which detects a flight state of a flying object, an energizing circuit which has an energizing circuit switch for operating the ignition unit, and a calculation unit which compares a detection result obtained by the ignition abnormality detection unit and a detection result obtained by the flight state detection unit with respective thresholds set beforehand, and turns on the energizing circuit switch in accordance with the comparison result.