公开(公告)号：US20190227572A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US16080669

申请日：2017-07-20

Applicant: Vision Cortexx Ltd.

Inventor： Sagi BLONDER ,  Ariel BENITAH ,  Eyal GIL-AD

IPC: G05D1/06 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D45/08 ,  G08G5/02 ,  G08G5/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0676 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/18 ,  B64D45/08 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G03B15/006 ,  G03B35/02 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0086 ,  G08G5/025

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.