公开(公告)号：US10078136B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-18

申请号：US14225161

申请日：2014-03-25

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Gur Kimchi ,  Scott Isaacs ,  Amir Navot ,  Brian C. Beckman ,  Frederik Schaffalitzky ,  Scott A. Green

IPC: G01S17/08 ,  G01S17/93 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G08G5/00 ,  G08G5/04 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01S13/08 ,  G01S15/08

CPC classification number: G01S17/08 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  G01S7/4817 ,  G01S13/08 ,  G01S15/08 ,  G01S17/42 ,  G01S17/87 ,  G01S17/933 ,  G05D1/102 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0052 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0078 ,  G08G5/0086 ,  G08G5/045

Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated mobile vehicle that includes one or more distance determining elements configured to detect the presence of objects and to cause the automated mobile vehicle to alter its path to avoid the object. For example, a distance determining element may be incorporated into one or more of the motors of the automated mobile vehicle and configured to determine a distance to an object. Based on the determined distance, a path of the automated mobile vehicle may be altered.

公开(公告)号：US20180229839A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-16

申请号：US15435121

申请日：2017-02-16

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Gur Kimchi ,  Louis LeRoi LeGrand, III ,  Dominic Timothy Shiosaki ,  Ricky Dean Welsh

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B64C29/02 ,  B64C27/20

Abstract: Described is an apparatus and method of an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) that can operate in either a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) orientation or a horizontal flight orientation. The aerial vehicle includes a plurality of propulsion mechanisms that enable the aerial vehicle to move in any of the six degrees of freedom (surge, sway, heave, pitch, yaw, and roll) when in the VTOL orientation. The aerial vehicle also includes a ring wing that surrounds the propulsion mechanisms and provides lift to the aerial vehicle when the aerial vehicle is operating in the horizontal flight orientation.

公开(公告)号：US09998975B1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-12

申请号：US15266775

申请日：2016-09-15

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Daniel Buchmueller ,  Fabian Hensel ,  Gur Kimchi

IPC: H04W36/30 ,  H04W36/32 ,  G01C21/00 ,  H04B1/3822 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: H04W36/30 ,  B64C39/024 ,  G01C21/00 ,  H04B1/3822 ,  H04B7/18506 ,  H04W36/32

Abstract: Described are systems and methods for considering a user equipment (UE) location and Evolved Node B (eNodeBs) locations as a factor in determining whether a handoff of a wireless connection between the UE and a first eNodeB to a second eNodeB should be initiated. Alternatively, the systems and methods include selection of an eNodeB with which a wireless connection is to be established. In addition to considering a signal strength for an eNodeB and determining whether to established a wireless communication or initiate a handoff based on the signal strength, the UE location and eNodeB locations may likewise considered. Likewise, a navigation path or anticipated trajectory of the UE may also be considered when selecting an eNodeB with which a wireless communication is to be established or to which a handoff of an existing wireless communication is to be initiated.

公开(公告)号：US09959860B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-01

申请号：US15725633

申请日：2017-10-05

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Brian C. Beckman ,  Gur Kimchi

IPC: G10K11/178 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G06N99/00 ,  G01S19/13

CPC classification number: G10K11/178 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2220/00 ,  G01S19/13 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G05D19/02 ,  G05D27/02 ,  G06N99/005 ,  G10K11/17823 ,  G10K11/17853 ,  G10K11/17873 ,  G10K2210/1281 ,  G10K2210/30231 ,  G10K2210/30351 ,  G10K2210/3038 ,  G10K2210/3045

Abstract: Noises that are to be emitted by an aerial vehicle during operations may be predicted using one or more machine learning systems, algorithms or techniques. Anti-noises having equal or similar intensities and equal but out-of-phase frequencies may be identified and generated based on the predicted noises, thereby reducing or eliminating the net effect of the noises. The machine learning systems, algorithms or techniques used to predict such noises may be trained using emitted sound pressure levels observed during prior operations of aerial vehicles, as well as environmental conditions, operational characteristics of the aerial vehicles or locations of the aerial vehicles during such prior operations. Anti-noises may be identified and generated based on an overall sound profile of the aerial vehicle, or on individual sounds emitted by the aerial vehicle by discrete sources.

公开(公告)号：US09953535B1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US15194385

申请日：2016-06-27

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Darren Ernest Canavor ,  Charles Edward Cartwright ,  Gur Kimchi ,  Brandon William Porter

IPC: H04W4/70 ,  G08G1/16 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W4/04 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G08G1/123

CPC classification number: G08G1/164 ,  G05D1/0206 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G05D1/0289 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G08G1/123 ,  G08G1/165 ,  G08G1/166 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/44 ,  H04W4/70

Abstract: Recent location and control information received from “lead” vehicles that traveled over a segment of land, sea, or air is captured to inform, via aggregated data, subsequent “trailing” vehicles that travel over that same segment of land, sea, or air. The aggregated data may provide the trailing vehicles with annotated road information that identifies obstacles. In some embodiments, at least some sensor control data may be provided to the subsequent vehicles to assist those vehicles in identifying the obstacles and/or performing other tasks. Besides, obstacles, the location and control information may enable determining areas traveled by vehicles that are not included in conventional maps, as well as vehicle actions associated with particular locations, such as places where vehicles park or make other maneuvers.

公开(公告)号：US20180099745A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-12

申请号：US15849374

申请日：2017-12-20

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ricky Dean Welsh ,  Gur Kimchi

IPC: B64C39/02 ,  A63H27/00

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  A63H27/12 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/108

Abstract: This disclosure describes a configuration of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes a frame that provides both structural support for the UAV and protection for foreign objects that may come into contact with the UAV. The UAV may have any number of lifting motors. For example, the UAV may include four lifting motors (also known as a quad-copter), eight lifting motors (octo-copter), etc. Likewise, to improve the efficiency of horizontal flight, the UAV may also include one or more pushing motor and propeller assemblies that are oriented at approximately ninety degrees to one or more of the lifting motors. When the UAV is moving horizontally, the pushing motor(s) may be engaged and the pushing propeller(s) will aid in the horizontal propulsion of the UAV.

公开(公告)号：US09934694B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-03

申请号：US15606807

申请日：2017-05-26

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Amir Navot ,  Brian C. Beckman ,  Daniel Buchmueller ,  Gur Kimchi ,  Fabian Hensel ,  Scott A. Green ,  Brandon William Porter ,  Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault

IPC: B64D45/04 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/06 ,  G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/08 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G07C5/08

CPC classification number: G08G5/0086 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64D45/04 ,  G01S2007/4975 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0676 ,  G05D1/0858 ,  G07C5/0808

Abstract: A system and method for operating an automated aerial vehicle are provided wherein influences of ground effects (e.g., which may increase the effective thrusts of propellers by interfering with the respective airflows) are utilized for sensing the ground or other surfaces. In various implementations, operating parameters of the automated aerial vehicle are monitored to determine when ground effects are influencing the parameters associated with each of the propellers, which correspondingly indicate proximities to a surface (e.g., the ground). Utilizing such techniques, different propellers of an automated aerial vehicle may provide different sensing data (e.g., for detecting issues with an uneven landing area, a sloped ground, determining an automated aerial vehicle's location based on a unique ground surface profile, etc.)

公开(公告)号：US09889930B2

公开(公告)日：2018-02-13

申请号：US14557403

申请日：2014-12-01

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ricky Dean Welsh ,  Gur Kimchi

IPC: B64C27/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  A63H27/00

CPC classification number: B64C39/024 ,  A63H27/12 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/108

Abstract: This disclosure describes a configuration of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that includes a frame that provides both structural support for the UAV and protection for foreign objects that may come into contact with the UAV. The UAV may have any number of lifting motors. For example, the UAV may include four lifting motors (also known as a quad-copter), eight lifting motors (octo-copter), etc. Likewise, to improve the efficiency of horizontal flight, the UAV may also include one or more pushing motor and propeller assemblies that are oriented at approximately ninety degrees to one or more of the lifting motors. When the UAV is moving horizontally, the pushing motor(s) may be engaged and the pushing propeller(s) will aid in the horizontal propulsion of the UAV.

公开(公告)号：US20180040251A1

公开(公告)日：2018-02-08

申请号：US15726330

申请日：2017-10-05

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Amir Navot ,  Gur Kimchi ,  Brian C. Beckman ,  Frederik Schaffalitzky ,  Daniel Buchmueller ,  Robert John Anderson

IPC: G08G5/04 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G08G5/00

Abstract: This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.

公开(公告)号：US20170274982A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-28

申请号：US15194468

申请日：2016-06-27

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Brian C. Beckman ,  John Raymond Brodie ,  Vedran Coralic ,  Taylor David Grenier ,  Gur Kimchi ,  Dominic Timothy Shiosaki ,  Ricky Dean Welsh ,  Richard Philip Whitlock

IPC: B64C11/48 ,  B64C11/00 ,  B64C11/30 ,  B64C39/02

Abstract: Sounds are generated by an aerial vehicle during operation. For example, the motors and propellers of an aerial vehicle generate sounds during operation. Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for actively adjusting the position and/or configuration of one or more propeller blades of a propulsion mechanism to generate different sounds and/or lifting forces from the propulsion mechanism.