Patent ID: 11939087
Assignee: THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 12:
13. An autonomous mooring system, comprising:
a pair of mooring systems connected to each other by way of a pair of mooring interfaces, wherein
the pair of mooring interfaces is configured to switch a state of the pair of mooring systems from a mooring state to a release state and visa-versa,
one of the pair of mooring interfaces comprises an electropermanent magnet (EPM) and the other one of the pair of mooring interfaces comprises a ferromagnetic plate, and
the EPM and the ferromagnetic plate are configured to connect the pair of mooring systems together; and
a pair of linking arms comprising cables for powering the EPM, transferring power from a EPM plate to the ferromagnetic plate, and/or providing a serial communication across the pair of mooring interfaces, and
the pair of linking arms are connected to a corresponding one of a pair of compliance controlled mechanisms.