Patent ID: 11972691
Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 20:
21. A method for managing an autonomous aerial vehicle, the method comprising:
storing, by a computer system, a copy of a mission plan in a mission work queue, wherein the mission plan is located in the autonomous aerial vehicle and comprises mission components that define tasks performed by the autonomous aerial vehicle;
receiving, by the computer system, a change to the mission components in the copy of the mission plan in the mission work queue to form a modified mission component in the copy of the mission plan in the mission work queue;
determining, by the computer system, that the copy of the mission plan including the modified mission component can be executed by the autonomous aerial vehicle;
synchronizing, by the computer system, the copy of the mission plan including the modified mission component with the mission plan in the autonomous aerial vehicle such that the mission plan includes the modified mission component, wherein the autonomous aerial vehicle executes the mission plan including the modified mission component;
displaying, by the computer system, a graphical user interface;
displaying, by the computer system, the mission work queue in the graphical user interface;
displaying, by the computer system, the mission components in the mission work queue in a sequential order relative to a timeline;
displaying, by the computer system, work items for a human operator to perform in the mission work queue the sequential order relative to the timeline;
receiving, by the computer system, a vehicle modified mission component for the mission plan from the autonomous aerial vehicle;
displaying, by the computer system, a new work item in the mission work queue in a location within the work items in the sequential order relative to the timeline in the mission work queue in which the location of the new work item is based on an importance of the vehicle modified mission component and in which the new work item is a task in the tasks for determining whether to approve using the vehicle modified mission component;
sending, by the computer system, a command to the autonomous aerial vehicle to execute the mission plan with the vehicle modified mission component when the vehicle modified mission component is approved; and
displaying, by the computer system, the vehicle modified mission component in the mission work queue when a confirmation has been received by the autonomous aerial vehicle.