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

Claim 0:
1. 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,
the EPM and the ferromagnetic plate are configured to connect the pair of mooring systems together, and
each of the pair of mooring interfaces is attached to two compliance controlled mechanisms configured to react externally applied forces and moments in a manner allowing for variable levels of compliance.