System for selecting and charging UAVs according to missions
View Patent ↗A system for selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle for executing a certain mission from a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles that are available to perform the mission and for charging the battery of the selected vehicle with a specific abnormal charging profile, that includes a landing platform, an electric charger, a database stored on a memory means that includes information regarding past charges including past abnormal charges of the vehicles, a computer processing controller for controlling the charger and for determining the specific abnormal charging profile to charge the selected vehicle. The computer processing controller selects the selected vehicle from the plurality of vehicles that are available to perform the mission according to the information of past charges including past abnormal charges of the vehicles.
1 . A computer-implemented method for selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) from a plurality of available UAVs and for charging a battery of a selected UAV, the method comprising:
(a) identifying, by one or more processing devices, a requirement to perform a mission within a threshold time period necessitating an abnormal charging profile that exceeds standard charging current parameters;
(b) accessing, by the one or more processing devices, a database containing historical data for each of a plurality of available UAVs, the historical data including past abnormal electric charges for each available UAV;
(c) determining, by the one or more processing devices, a specific abnormal charging profile capable of charging a battery to a required level within the threshold time period;
(d) selecting, by the one or more processing devices, a selected UAV from the plurality of available UAVs by comparing the past abnormal electric charges of each available UAV against a battery lifespan threshold; and
(e) applying, via an electric charger, the specific abnormal charging profile to the battery of the selected UAV.
2 . A system for managing a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the system comprising:
a landing platform;
an electric charger;
one or more processing devices; and
a memory means storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processing devices, configure the system to:
(i) detect a mission requirement and a threshold time period for mission readiness;
(ii) determine a specific abnormal charging profile required to meet the threshold time period;
(iii) retrieve from a database a count of past abnormal electric charges for each of a plurality of available UAVs;
(iv) select a specific UAV from the plurality of available UAVs based on the count of past abnormal electric charges relative to an expected battery lifespan; and
(v) operate the electric charger to charge a battery of the specific UAV using the determined specific abnormal charging profile.