An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) air traffic control method utilizing wireless networks includes communicating with a plurality of UAVs via a plurality of satellites associated with the wireless networks, wherein the plurality of UAVs each include hardware and antennas adapted to communicate to the plurality of satellites; maintaining data associated with flight of each of the plurality of UAVs based on the communicating; and processing the maintained data to perform a plurality of function associated with air traffic control of the plurality of UAVs.

Embodiments described herein are concerned with system for identifying an aerial vehicle. The system comprises: a radar sub-system, the radar sub-system comprising at least one radar connectable to a static support member and a transceiver configured to transmit data indicative of one or more targets identified by the radar within an airspace; a receiver arranged to receive the data indicative of one or more targets identified by the radar; and a processing system configured to process said data, whereby to identify at least one aerial vehicle. In some embodiments the radar comprises a marine radar.

A system is provided which can achieve reliability of a notification about a moving manner of a work machine for a worker regardless of the distance between the work machine and the worker. A sign image M is projected onto a peripheral region of the worker (for example, a ground surface which is present in the vicinity of the worker to the extent that the worker is capable of visually recognizing the sign image M) by an unmanned aircraft 60. The sign image M is an image which represents a moving manner of a work machine 40. Thus, regardless of the distance between the work machine 40 and the worker, reliability of a notification about the moving manner of the work machine 40 for the worker is achieved compared to a case where the sign image M is projected onto an irrelevant place to the position of the worker.

An example method for managing a UAV control operation includes periodically receiving a request for transmission of UAV assistance information from a network entity and establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with the network entity. In response to the received request, the method further includes determining a triggering of at least one event corresponding to an initiation of a UAV control operation and transmitting UAV assistance information to the network entity in an RRC connected state based on the determined triggering of the at least one event. The method further includes receiving a control message from the network entity in response to the transmitted UAV assistance information. The control message includes information related to an execution of the UAV control operation. Thereafter, the method further includes executing the UAV control operation based on the information included in the received control message.

Apparatus, systems, processes, and computer-readable mediums for facilitating the use of drones are described. For one embodiment, such a system includes a user element having a user application computer program configured to instruct a user interface device to facilitate use of user data and use of mission parameter(s) for a proposed drone mission. An owner element includes an owner application computer program configured to facilitate use of owner data and use of at least one drone parameter. A fleet system element is communicatively coupled to the user element and to the owner element and includes a computer system processor configured to facilitate use of a fleet record and use of at least one fleet parameter.

Aspects of drone-assisted offroad vehicle emergency systems are addressed. In one aspect, a system includes an offroad vehicle having integrated therein a processing system coupled to a user interface. The processing system is configured to respond to a potential emergency situation including a stranded or lost person or a hazardous condition in a path of the vehicle. An aerial drone is equipped with multiple sensors for receiving data. Responsive to a trigger, the processing system may instruct the drone to deploy one or more times to survey a target region. The drone may receive sensor data relevant to an emergency situation and relay the data back to the vehicle. The processing system analyzes the data to provide a remedial response.

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) mount with a base station, also known as Flying Base Station (FBS) has garnered considerable attention for 5G and beyond communication. This invention provides a method and system for deploying a swarm of FBSs over a geographical region autonomously. The proposed 3-D deployment technique exhibit how to place a minimum number of FBSs energy efficiently over a region to offer guaranteed QoS without inter-UAV interference and UAV capacity limit violations. A Master-Slave coordination technique is revealed to maintain inter-FBS synchronization to avoid collisions during the transition. The technique for selecting intermediate hop coordinates is proclaimed under path planning.

The present invention relates to navigation, fuzing, and guidance of vehicles, and more particularly to such capabilities for unmanned vehicles, drones, or other related systems. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a flight deck unit comprising sensors and electronics adapted to perform the navigation, fuzing, and/or guidance for such systems. Preferably, the flight deck unit is adapted for performing navigation, fuzing, and guidance in GPS denied or degraded environments and is immune to spoofing, jamming, and hacking, thereby providing safe and accurate navigation, fuzing, and guidance regardless of the arena or environment. Further, the invention is directed to a system for providing safety supervision of weapons systems on vehicles or projectiles. More particularly, the safety supervision is adapted for ensuring that weapon-level safety measures are unable to be disengaged while the vehicle or projectile is within a safety zone.

A High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) aircraft is disclosed for maintaining the span-wise shape of the wing and maintaining total bending and torsion loads. The aircraft including at least one aeroelastic span loaded fixed wing having an aspect ratio greater than 15 and wing loading less than 6 kg/m.sup.2, the wing having a plurality of spoilers distributed across the span of the wing and each spoiler being chordwise located adjacent the center of pressure of the wing. The HAPS aircraft further includes a control system for controlling the spoilers, and sensors which determine the amount of lift at points or regions along the wing span, the pitch and roll at points or regions along the wing span, the bending and torsional strain at points or regions along the wing span, or the absolute speed and roll and pitch angle of the wing.

A method (50) of route directing performed in an unmanned aerial vehicle (8a) is provided. The unmanned aerial vehicle (8a) comprises a communication module (9a) for wireless communication with an access node (2a, 2b) of a communications system (1). The method (50) comprises receiving (51), from a network entity (11), warning signaling about a restricted area, and withdrawing (52) from the restricted area in response to receiving the warning signaling. A method (20) in a network entity (11) is also provided, as well as an unmanned aerial vehicle (8a), a network entity (11), computer programs and computer program products.