公开(公告)号：US20190185158A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

申请号：US15848402

申请日：2017-12-20

申请人： Wing Aviation LLC

发明人： Jesse Blake ,  James Schmalzried ,  Siegfried Zerweckh ,  Andre Prager ,  Scott Velez

IPC分类号： B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/10 ,  B64F1/36 ,  H02J7/35 ,  H02J7/00

CPC分类号： B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/104 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64F1/364 ,  G05D1/104 ,  H02J7/0052 ,  H02J7/355

摘要： Example implementations may relate to self-deployment of operational infrastructure by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Specifically, a control system may determine operational location(s) from which a group of UAVs is to provide aerial transport services in a geographic area. For at least a first of the operational location(s), the system may cause a first UAV from the group to perform an infrastructure deployment task that includes (i) a flight from a source location to the first operational location and (ii) installation of operational infrastructure at the first operational location by the first UAV. In turn, this may enable the first UAV to operate from the first operational location, as the first UAV can charge a battery of the first UAV using the operational infrastructure installed at the first operational location and/or can carry out item transport task(s) at location(s) that are in the vicinity of the first operational location.

公开(公告)号：US20180373271A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US16006600

申请日：2018-06-12

申请人： TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED

发明人： Dajun Zhou ,  Junfeng Shen ,  Bin Wang ,  Xuefeng Wei

IPC分类号： G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G08G5/00

CPC分类号： G05D1/104 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/0033 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G08G5/0013 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0043 ,  G08G5/0052 ,  G08G5/0056 ,  G08G5/0065 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0082 ,  G08G5/045

摘要： Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for flight control and a control apparatus for flight control. In an example, a first aircraft includes the control apparatus for flight control and the control apparatus includes interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The interface circuitry receives a first flight control instruction and a flight parameter. The first flight control instruction and the flight parameter are sent by a mobile terminal device. The flight parameter is indicative of a preset flight altitude. In response to the first flight control instruction, the processing circuitry controls the first aircraft to fly to the preset flight altitude. Further, the processing circuitry detects an existence of a second aircraft within a surrounding of the first aircraft, and adjusts a flight posture of the first aircraft according to the existence detection of the second aircraft within the surrounding of the first aircraft.

公开(公告)号：US20180326441A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-15

申请号：US15774804

申请日：2016-11-04

申请人： Xiaoyang LIU ,  Haiying LIN

发明人： Xiaoyang LIU ,  Haiying LIN

IPC分类号： B05B13/00 ,  G05D1/10 ,  B05B15/62 ,  B05B1/20 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/04

CPC分类号： B05B13/005 ,  B05B1/20 ,  B05B15/62 ,  B64C39/022 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64C2201/148 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/042 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/104

摘要： A tethered unmanned rotorcraft chain platform system and liquid continuous spraying system includes a mobile mooring platform, a power system, a tether, multiple unmanned rotorcrafts, a central control system and a liquid continuous spraying system. The power system moves with the mobile mooring platform and provides electrical power to the multiple unmanned rotorcrafts by the tether. The tether is lifted in the air by the multiple unmanned rotorcrafts to form a three-dimensional polyline/curve, so as to avoid or bypass obstacles and adapt to the terrain variation, thus greatly expanding the horizontal space that can be reached by the tethered unmanned rotorcraft chain and its payload. The delivery pipeline of the liquid continuous spraying system is arranged along the tether to continuously supply a liquid such as agricultural chemicals to spraying nozzles mounted on the delivery pipeline or the unmanned rotorcrafts.

公开(公告)号：US20180267562A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-20

申请号：US15925714

申请日：2018-03-19

申请人： APIUM INC.

发明人： Tyler MacCready ,  Alan Nise

IPC分类号： G05D1/10 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G08G5/04 ,  G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/00

CPC分类号： G05D1/104 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G05D1/0044 ,  G08G5/0008 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0043 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/0078 ,  G08G5/04 ,  G08G5/045

摘要： A method and system for automated air traffic management of unmanned vehicles that assures safety and continuous flow, even for vehicles of wide-ranging capabilities. Some embodiments include onboard equipment that distributes the burden of management across all the vehicles in a given airspace so that autonomous cooperation between vehicles creates useful group-level behavior. Vehicles carry definitions of rules of interaction on shared flyways. In conjunction with a means of exchanging location and velocity information with close neighbors, onboard algorithms calculate complementary navigation vectors that inform each vehicle's autopilot of a cooperative trajectory. The collective result of individual, autonomous decisions is cooperation at a group scale that manages traffic features such as density and spacing without the need for a ground-based communication infrastructure.

公开(公告)号：US20180259960A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-13

申请号：US15973152

申请日：2018-05-07

申请人： Motionloft, Inc.

发明人： Mark Cuban ,  Joyce Reitman ,  Jeffrey Orion Pritchard

IPC分类号： G05D1/02 ,  G06K9/52 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N5/232 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/10 ,  B64D47/08

CPC分类号： G05D1/0202 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/104 ,  G06K9/0063 ,  G06K9/00778 ,  G06K9/52 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N7/181 ,  H04N7/185

摘要： An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can include one or more cameras for capturing image data within a field of view that depends in part upon the location and orientation of the UAV. At least a portion of the image data can be processed on the UAV to locate objects of interest, such as people or cars, and use that information to determine where to fly the drone in order to capture higher quality image data of those or other such objects. Once identified, the objects of interest can be counted, and the density, movement, location, and behavior of those objects identified. This can help to determine occurrences such as traffic congestion or unusual patterns of pedestrian movement, as well as to locate persons, fires, or other such objects. The data can also be analyzed by a remote system or service that has additional resources to provide more accurate results.

公开(公告)号：US20180219948A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-02

申请号：US15859495

申请日：2017-12-30

申请人： Episys Science, Inc.

发明人： Nadeesha Oliver RANASINGHE ,  Bong Kyun RYU ,  Wei-Min SHEN

IPC分类号： H04L29/08 ,  G07C5/02 ,  H04W76/11 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G06K9/62 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/021 ,  G07C5/08 ,  H04W76/25 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  H04W84/00 ,  H04W84/18

CPC分类号： H04L67/12 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/104 ,  G06K9/00664 ,  G06K9/6284 ,  G06K9/6296 ,  G06K9/6297 ,  G07C5/02 ,  G07C5/08 ,  H04W4/021 ,  H04W4/023 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W40/248 ,  H04W72/0406 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/25 ,  H04W84/005 ,  H04W84/18

摘要： Techniques for autonomously establishing, maintaining, and repairing of a wireless communication network among multiple autonomous mobile nodes (AMN) are provided. The multiple AMNs are flown towards a first node. A tentacle is established with the first node and extended to cover a second node over a distance, thereby establishing a wireless communication network between the first node and the second node via the multiple AMNs. Any damage to the established wireless communication network or tentacle may be autonomously detected and repaired by using spare AMNs. Further, the communication network may be used to enable autonomous detection, tracking of the second node, as well as autonomous detection of a contamination area, based on data received from one or more sensors onboard the AMNs deployed in the air.

公开(公告)号：US20180173247A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

申请号：US15385542

申请日：2016-12-20

申请人： Bio-Cellular Design Aeronautics, Inc.

发明人： Jayant Ratti ,  Kamal M. Benjelloum ,  Roderick Hynes

IPC分类号： G05D1/12 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06F17/12 ,  G06F17/16 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06K9/00

CPC分类号： G05D1/12 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/104 ,  G06F17/12 ,  G06F17/16

摘要： The foregoing is directed, in one embodiment, to a system for optimizing the continuous monitoring of targets by a collection of mobile sensor platforms comprising a plurality of mobile sensor platforms equipped with a processor, at least one imaging device and a communication device, wherein in the processor of each of the mobile sensor platforms is configured, though code executing therein, to communicate with the other plurality of mobile sensor platforms in order to assign each member of the plurality to obtain image data of a member of a set of targets in response to the receipt of target selection data, and a remote computing device configured to receive imaging data from one or more of the plurality of the mobile sensors and generate a target selection data for transmission to the plurality of mobile sensor platforms.

公开(公告)号：US20180164835A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-14

申请号：US15715506

申请日：2017-09-26

申请人： ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

发明人： Panagiotis Artemiadis ,  Daniel Larsson

IPC分类号： G05D1/10 ,  G05D1/08

CPC分类号： G05D1/104 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/027 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  G05D1/0858

摘要： A first rotorcraft is provided, including a plurality of first coupling points. A second rotorcraft is provided, including a plurality of second coupling points. The first rotorcraft is mechanically coupled to the second rotorcraft using the plurality of first coupling points and the plurality of second coupling points to form a coupled configuration. A joint controller is implemented to maneuver the first rotorcraft and the second rotorcraft of the coupled configuration. Gains associated with the joint controller are set dependent on the application and anticipated maneuvers. The gains are scheduled to be moderate at time instances immediately following the formation of the coupled configuration and then the gains are changed to more aggressive values once the coupled configuration has been stabilized.

公开(公告)号：US20180136670A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-17

申请号：US15721164

申请日：2017-09-29

申请人： Tobias Gurdan

发明人： Tobias Gurdan

IPC分类号： G05D1/10 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/06 ,  G09F21/06

CPC分类号： G05D1/104 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64D47/06 ,  G08G5/0052 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G09F21/06

摘要： Disclosed herein are systems and methods for distributing a plurality of drones to form an aerial image. The systems and methods may include: receiving, at a computing device comprising a processor, location data and drone data; distributing, by the computing device, a plurality of drones based on the aspects of an aerial image such that, during flight, the plurality of drones form the aerial image; and exporting, by the computing device, coordinates for each of the plurality of drones. The location data may define aspects of the aerial image to be formed by the plurality of drones. The drone data may include a number of drones within the plurality of drones. The coordinate for each of the plurality of drones may define a location for a respective drone within the aerial image.

公开(公告)号：US20180129879A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15803141

申请日：2017-11-03

申请人： Intel Corporation

发明人： Markus Achtelik ,  Jan Stumpf ,  Daniel Gurdan ,  Bastian Jaeger

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G06T17/05 ,  G01C5/00 ,  B64D47/08

CPC分类号： G05D1/0094 ,  A01B79/02 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G01C5/00 ,  G01C11/02 ,  G01C11/06 ,  G05D1/104 ,  G06K9/00657 ,  G06T17/05

摘要： Unmanned aerial vehicle-based systems and methods for agricultural landscape modeling are disclosed herein. An example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a communicator to receive an instruction to request the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over an area of interest. The instruction is from a vehicle in the area of interest. The unmanned aerial vehicle is to fly over the area of interest. The example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a camera to generate image data for the area of interest. The example unmanned aerial vehicle includes a data generator to generate a vegetation landscape model of the area of interest based on the image data. The communicator is to communicate the vegetation landscape model to the vehicle.