Unmanned aerial vehicle launching and landing system
The invention relates to a system for landing UAV's. The system comprises a slingshot structure that includes arm based structure and an axis installed along the arm of the structure and enabling the arm to move around it. The system comprises a base connecting the axis to a platform at which the system is installable. The system also includes a controlled pulling and braking means that connects the arm of the structure and the platform upon which the system is installable and stretchable elastic installed in a stretched manner at a gap formed between two arms and set to connect with a landing UAV. At the landing phase, the controlled pulling and braking of the system essentially breaks the motion of the arm based structure that is propelled to revolve around the system's axis, and propels the structure to move around the axis.
1. A system for landing UAVs, comprising:
a slingshot structure having a pair of rotatable arms with a first end and a second end;
a rotatable joint installed at the first end of each of said pair of rotatable arms of said slingshot structure and wherein said pair of rotatable arms are configured to move around said rotatable joint;
a movable base connecting said rotatable joint to a platform at which said system is installable;
a controlled pulling and braking means that connects between lower end of said pair of rotatable arms of said slingshot structure and said platform upon which said system is installable; and
an arresting cable installed in a stretched manner at a gap between said rotatable pair of arms and set to receive a landing UAV, wherein
at a landing phase, said controlled pulling and braking means brakes the motion of said rotatable pair of arms of said slingshot structure that is propelled to revolve around said system's rotatable joint, from a time that said landing UAV forms contact with said arresting cable and propels said structure to move around said rotatable joint.
2. A system for landing UAVs, in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said platform is a vessel deck and said slingshot structure is deployable across the vessel deck.
3. A system for landing UAVs, in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said system comprises in addition:
a cushion means for receiving the landing UAV.