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US 10,035,593 B2Granted
Distributed drone flight path builder system
AssigneeOmniscience Corporation
InventorManu Shukla
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AssigneeOmniscience Corporation
InventorManu Shukla
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Drones have become ubiquitous in performing risky and labor intensive areal tasks cheaply and safely. To allow them to be autonomous, their flight plan needs to be pre-built for them. Existing works do not precalculate flight paths but instead focus on navigation through camera based image processing techniques, genetic or geometric algorithms to guide the drone during flight. That makes flight navigation complex and risky. We present automated flight plan builder DIFPL which pre-builds flight plans for drones to survey a large area. The flight plans are built for subregions and fed into drones which allow them to navigate autonomously. DIFPL employs distributed paradigm on Hadoop MapReduce framework. Distribution is achieved by processing sections or subregions in parallel. Experiments performed with network and elevation datasets validate the efficiency of DIFPL in building optimal flight plans.
A method to generate a flight plan for an area to be surveyed, the method comprising:
A system comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
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