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- Patent Title: Systems and methods for automated landing of a drone
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Application No.: US16080669Application Date: 2017-07-20
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Publication No.: US10551852B2Publication Date: 2020-02-04
- Inventor: Sagi Blonder , Ariel Benitah , Eyal Gil-Ad
- Applicant: Percepto Robotics Ltd
- Applicant Address: IL ModiIn
- Assignee: Percepto Robotics Ltd
- Current Assignee: Percepto Robotics Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: IL ModiIn
- International Application: PCT/IL2017/050820 WO 20170720
- International Announcement: WO2018/015959 WO 20180125
- Main IPC: G05D1/06
- IPC: G05D1/06 ; B64C39/02 ; B64D45/08 ; G08G5/02 ; G08G5/00

Abstract:
There is provided a method of automatically landing a drone on a landing pad having thereon guiding-elements arranged in a pattern relative to a central region of the landing pad, comprising: receiving first image(s) captured by a camera of the drone, processing the first image(s) to compute a segmentation mask according to an estimate of a location of the landing pad, receiving second image(s) captured by the camera, processing the second image(s) according to the segmentation mask to compute a segmented region and extracting from the segmented region guiding-element(s), determining a vector for each of the extracted guiding-element(s), and aggregating the vectors to compute an estimated location of the central region of the landing pad, and navigating and landing the drone on the landing pad according to the estimated location of the central region of the landing pad.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190227572A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED LANDING OF A DRONE Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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