Alert system for an unmanned aerial vehicle
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMichael S. Gordon, Clifford A. Pickover, Maja Vukovic
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Abstract
An unmanned aerial vehicle for aerial transportation of delivery items. The unmanned aerial vehicle includes an attachment device to fasten and unfasten one or more delivery items to the unmanned aerial vehicle, a motor to aerially transport the one or more delivery items along a delivery route, a sensor mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle to detect at least one environmental variable during the delivery route, and an alert system to generate a status associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle along the delivery route to an observer when the environmental variable exceeds a predetermined threshold.
Claims20
An unmanned aerial vehicle for aerial transportation of delivery items, the unmanned aerial vehicle comprising:
- at least one motor to aerially transport one or more delivery items along a delivery route;
- at least one sensor mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle to detect at least one environmental variable during the delivery route;
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- an alert system, including a risk analysis device, configured to generate a status associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle along the delivery route to at least one observer when the at least one environmental variable exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the status includes a risk level to the one or more delivery items.
A method for aerial transportation of delivery items using an unmanned aerial vehicle, the method comprising:
- aerially transporting one or more delivery items along a delivery route;
- detecting, using at least one sensor mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle, at least one environmental variable during the delivery route;
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- generating, by evaluating the risk level to the one or more delivery items, a status associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle along the delivery route to at least one observer when the at least one environmental variable exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the status includes a risk level to the one or more delivery items.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a computer readable program for aerial transportation of delivery items using an unmanned aerial vehicle, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computer, causes the computer to execute:
- aerially transporting one or more delivery items along a delivery route;
- detecting, using at least one sensor mounted on the unmanned aerial vehicle, at least one environmental variable during the delivery route;
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- generating, by evaluating the risk level to the one or more delivery items, a status associated with the unmanned aerial vehicle along the delivery route to at least one observer when the at least one environmental variable exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein the status includes a risk level to the one or more delivery items.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.