Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination
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Application No.: US15431057Application Date: 2017-02-13
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Publication No.: US10755585B2Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Inventor: Jonathan Downey , Bernard J. Michini , Joseph Moster , Donald Curry Weigel , James Ogden
- Applicant: Skydio, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood City
- Assignee: Skydio, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Skydio, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood City
- Agency: Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane, P.C.
- Main IPC: G08G5/00
- IPC: G08G5/00 ; H04W12/06 ; G07C5/00 ; B64C39/02 ; G05D1/00 ; H04W4/021 ; G07C5/08 ; H04W48/02 ; G05D1/02 ; G07C5/02 ; G05D1/10 ; G01S1/00 ; G01S19/14 ; G06F19/00 ; H04W4/04

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes determining, by an electronic system in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an estimated fuel remaining in the UAV. An estimated fuel consumption of the UAV is determined. Estimated information associated with wind affecting the UAV is determined using information obtained from sensors included in the UAV. Estimated flights times remaining for a current path, and one or more alternative flight paths, are determined using the determined estimated fuel remaining, determined estimated fuel consumption, determined information associated wind, and information describing each flight path. In response to the electronic system determining that the estimated fuel remaining, after completion of the current flight path, would be below a first threshold, an alternative flight path is selected.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170154535A1 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AUTHORIZATION AND GEOFENCE ENVELOPE DETERMINATION Public/Granted day:2017-06-01
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