公开(公告)号：US09969481B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-15

申请号：US15160874

申请日：2016-05-20

Applicant: Silicis Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Michael J. Stigler ,  Nicholas James Setar

IPC: B64B1/12 ,  G08G5/00 ,  B64B1/10 ,  B64B1/14 ,  B64B1/22 ,  B64B1/24 ,  B64B1/60 ,  B64B1/62 ,  B64B1/64 ,  B64B1/66 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G09F21/04 ,  G09F21/06 ,  B64B1/00 ,  B64B1/18 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B64B1/36 ,  G05D1/10

CPC classification number: B64B1/12 ,  B64B1/005 ,  B64B1/10 ,  B64B1/14 ,  B64B1/18 ,  B64B1/22 ,  B64B1/24 ,  B64B1/36 ,  B64B1/60 ,  B64B1/62 ,  B64B1/64 ,  B64B1/66 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/022 ,  B64C2201/126 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G09F21/04 ,  G09F21/06

Abstract: An intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance system is disclosed including a ground station and one or more aerial vehicles. The aerial vehicles are autonomous systems capable of communicating intelligence data to the ground station and be used as part of a missile delivery package. A plurality of aerial vehicles can be configured to cast a wide net of reconnaissance over a large area on the ground including smaller overlapping reconnaissance areas provided by each of the plurality of the aerial vehicles.

公开(公告)号：US20180130361A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15480310

申请日：2017-04-05

Applicant: Loveland Innovations, LLC

Inventor： Jim Loveland ,  Leif Larson ,  Dan Christiansen ,  Tad Christiansen ,  Cam Christiansen

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G08G5/04 ,  G06Q40/08

CPC classification number: G08G5/0069 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G01C11/02 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0094 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G06K9/00201 ,  G06K9/0063 ,  G06K9/00637 ,  G06K9/00805 ,  G06K9/2063 ,  G06K9/209 ,  G06Q40/08 ,  G08G5/045 ,  H04N1/00204 ,  H04N5/23203 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N7/183 ,  H04N7/185

Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assessment and reporting system may conduct micro scans of a wide variety of property types. A risk zone within which the UAV may navigate during the micro scan may include a plurality of virtual tags that identify navigational hazards relevant to the navigation of the UAV at a specific location or specify scan actions to be implemented while the UAV is at the specific location. Scan data from any of a wide variety of sensor types may be compared with profile data using computer vision techniques to identify characteristics, defects, damage, construction materials, and the like. A rule set evaluator may evaluate tags and/or matched profile data to determine adaptive actions to modify the navigation or scanning process of the UAV.

公开(公告)号：US20180128923A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15681244

申请日：2017-08-18

Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

Inventor： MAO-KUO HSU

IPC: G01S17/93 ,  B64C39/02

CPC classification number: G01S17/93 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64C2203/00 ,  G01S13/9303 ,  G01S15/93

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for realizing obstacle avoidance functionality of a flying device. The method includes: providing a flying device without obstacle avoidance functionality, wherein the flying device includes a flying body and a remote controller; the flying body includes a wireless receiving module, a flying controlling module and an actuator; and second, installing a sensor and a micro controlling module; the wireless receiving module only send a first flying order that is from the remote controller, to the micro controlling module; the sensor only send an obstacle information to the micro controlling module; and the micro controlling module calculates the first flying order and the obstacle information to obtain a second flying order, and sends the second flying order to the flying controlling module; and the flying controlling module controls the flying body to fly according to the second flying order.

公开(公告)号：US09965964B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-08

申请号：US14823208

申请日：2015-08-11

Applicant: HERE Global B.V.

Inventor： Bruce Bernhardt ,  Arnold Sheynman ,  Jingwei Xu

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G01C21/00 ,  G05D1/10

CPC classification number: G08G5/0069 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/14 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  G01C21/005 ,  G05D1/101 ,  G08G5/0021 ,  G08G5/0034 ,  G08G5/0039 ,  G08G5/006 ,  G08G5/0086

Abstract: A method including retrieving a multi-dimensional map from a navigation system memory; determining an aerial route between two locations based at least partially upon the multi-dimensional map; and storing the aerial route in the navigation system memory. The multi-dimensional map includes terrain information and object information. The object information includes information regarding location and size of objects extending above ground level. The objects are in uncontrolled airspace, and the object information includes height information regarding a height above ground level of at least some of the objects. The aerial route is limited to the uncontrolled airspace, where the aerial route is over and around at least some of the objects, and where the aerial route is determined, at least partially, based upon the height information of the objects.

公开(公告)号：US09958866B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-01

申请号：US15223359

申请日：2016-07-29

Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation

Inventor： Thomas E. Chefalas ,  Andrzej Kochut ,  Clifford A. Pickover ,  Komminist Weldemariam

IPC: G01C23/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D3/00 ,  G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G06Q10/10

CPC classification number: G05D1/0088 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/108 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64C2201/123 ,  B64C2201/126 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  B64D47/02 ,  G06Q10/1093

Abstract: A drone-based system determines a user cohort for one or more users to assemble an object. The drone-based system assesses a task for the one or more users to assemble the object. Based on the determined user cohort and the assessed task, a drone of the drone-based system provides help to the one or more users as the one or more users assemble the object. The drone-based system may comprise a drone and one or more memories and computer readable code and one or more processors. The one or more processors, in response to execution of the computer readable code, cause the drone-based system to perform operations. The drone-based system may be only the drone or the drone and one or more servers.

公开(公告)号：US20180114450A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-26

申请号：US15397140

申请日：2017-01-03

Applicant: U.S.A., as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Inventor： Patricia C. Glaab ,  Louis J. Glaab

IPC: G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G01C23/00 ,  B64D47/06

CPC classification number: G08G5/0039 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/042 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/145 ,  B64D45/00 ,  B64D47/06 ,  G01C23/00 ,  G05D1/0055 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0676 ,  G08G5/0056 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/025

Abstract: An autonomous emergency flight management system may find safe and clear landing sites for unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in emergency situations. Emergency flight management software may reside on an onboard computing system. The computing system may continuously look at internal databases and input from other systems (e.g., a global positioning system (GPS), camera, compass, radar, sonar, etc.), depending on what is available. The emergency flight management system may make decisions on its own without human intervention. For instance, a database may provide some local likely candidates for landing sites. Information associated with the candidates may include latitude, longitude, altitude for top of a building, etc. Position updates may be continuously provided from an autopilot or other suitable system.

公开(公告)号：US09952594B1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-24

申请号：US15482038

申请日：2017-04-07

Applicant: TuSimple

Inventor： Yufei Zhao ,  Xiaodi Hou

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/08 ,  G05D1/10 ,  G08G1/01 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06K9/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0094 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/12 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64D47/08 ,  G06K9/00651 ,  G06K2209/23 ,  G08G1/012 ,  G08G1/0129

Abstract: A system and method for traffic data collection using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are disclosed. A particular embodiment is configured to: deploy an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), equipped with a camera, to an elevated position at a monitored location or to track a specific target vehicle; capture video data of the monitored location or the target vehicle for a pre-determined period of time using the UAV camera; transfer the captured video data to a processing system; at the processing system, process the captured video data on a frame basis to identify vehicles or objects of interest for analysis; group the video data from multiple frames related to a particular vehicle or object of interest into a data group associated with the particular vehicle or object; create a data group for each of the vehicles or objects of interest; and provide the data groups corresponding to each of the vehicles or objects of interest as output data used to configure or train a human driver model for prediction or simulation of human driver behavior.

公开(公告)号：US20180107226A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-19

申请号：US15786559

申请日：2017-10-17

Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.

Inventor： Kai-Min Yang ,  Chih-Kai Chang ,  Tsu-Ming Liu

IPC: G05D1/04 ,  G08G5/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G08G5/04

CPC classification number: G05D1/042 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D1/0676 ,  G05D2201/0203 ,  G08G5/0069 ,  G08G5/045

Abstract: A path planning method applied to a navigation device includes acquiring a two-dimensional depth map, transforming the two-dimensional depth map into a gray distribution map via statistics of pixel values on the two-dimensional depth map, computing a space matching map by arranging pixel counts on the gray distribution map, and computing a weighting value about each angle range of the space matching map in accordance with a distance from location of a pixel count to a reference point of the space matching map. The weighting value represents existential probability of an obstacle within the said angle range and a probable distance between the navigation device and the obstacle.

公开(公告)号：US09940432B1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-10

申请号：US14547018

申请日：2014-11-18

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Fabian Hensel

IPC: B64F5/00 ,  G06F17/50 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B64D1/10 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  B64F5/60

CPC classification number: G06F17/5095 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64D1/10 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06Q10/083

Abstract: Techniques for developing a design for a module of an unmanned device may be provided. For example, the unmanned device may comprise one or more already designed components. If a component is to be added to the unmanned device, a design of this new component may be developed. The development may include attaching a computer to the unmanned vehicle. The computer may interface with the one or more already designed components, may be configured to host features of the new component, and may interface with a design computing device. The computer and the design computing device may form a design environment within which data may be exchanged to develop the design. Upon completion of the design development, a design plan may be generated for the new component.

公开(公告)号：US20180095463A1

公开(公告)日：2018-04-05

申请号：US15394391

申请日：2016-12-29

Applicant: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Inventor： Dennis Dale Castleman ,  Ruxin Chen ,  Frank Zhao ,  Glenn Black

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G08G5/00 ,  B64C39/02 ,  G11B31/00 ,  G11B27/10

CPC classification number: G11B27/102 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/141 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G05D1/0022 ,  G06F3/04847

Abstract: A flight path management system manages flight paths for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The flight path management system receives a sequence of controller inputs for the UAV, and stores the sequence of controller inputs in a memory. The flight path management system accesses the memory and selects a selected section of the sequence of controller inputs corresponding to a time period. The flight management system outputs the selected section to a playback device in real time over a length of the time period.