Patent ID: 11939069
Assignee: FLYON AEROSYSTEMS LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  Y | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A vertiport for use in a transportation system transporting passengers via a fleet of passenger-conveying VTOL air vehicles (AVs), the vertiport comprising:
(a) a flight deck including at least one landing pad;
(b) a passenger terminal;
(c) at least one disembarkation area for at least one passenger to disembark from the AV for entering said passenger terminal;
(d) a robotic system comprising at least one handling robot configured for automatically approaching and docking with an AV while not in flight, wherein said at least one handling robot is operative to convey the AV within the vertiport;
(e) at least two turntables for orienting a stand-alone AV or an AV docked with said at least one handling robot; and
(f) a vertiport controller comprising at least one processor and at least one communications subsystem, said vertiport controller controlling the movement of the AV, handling robot and turntables at the vertiport,
wherein a first of said at least two turntables is positioned on said landing pad, and wherein said vertiport controller is operable to orient said AV, after landing on said first of said turntables, to be aligned with a direction to a second of said turntables at said disembarkation area.