Drone flight operations
AssigneeDroneSense LLC
InventorChristopher Eyhorn
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for sending a flight plan for execution by a drone, where the flight plan is adapted to a flight controller of the drone. Receiving flight data from the drone while the drone is executing the flight plan. Determining a modification to the flight plan based on the flight data received from the drone. Sending the modification to the flight plan to the drone while the drone is executing the flight plan, such that the drone executes the flight plan as modified by the modification.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method for controlling drone approaches to target locations, the method being executed by one or more processors and comprising:
- receiving, by the one or more processors, a request for a drone to enter a drone approach corridor to a geographic location, wherein the drone approach corridor is a volume of airspace extending from an area above the geographic location to the geographic location and wherein the drone approach corridor is defined by boundary data comprising:
- geographical coordinates of an entry point to the drone approach corridor,
- geographical coordinates of a landing site at the geographic location associated, and
- geographical boundaries of the drone approach corridor that provide a flight path from the entry point to the landing site;
- determining, by the one or more processors, whether the drone approach corridor is available for the drone to enter;
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- sending, by the one or more processors, a response that grants or denies permission for the drone to enter the drone approach corridor based on the determination of whether the drone approach corridor is available for the drone to enter.
A system for controlling drone approaches to target locations, the system comprising:
- one or more data stores that store data defining a plurality of drone approach corridors, each drone approach corridor being defined by a designated volume of airspace that extends from an area above a respective geographic location to the respective geographic location;
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- one or more computing devices coupled to the data stores and that host a drone control platform configured to control drone usage of the plurality of drone approach corridors,
- wherein the data defining at least one drone approach corridor (DAC) of the plurality of drone approached corridors comprises:
- geographical coordinates of an entry point to the DAC,
- geographical coordinates of a landing site associated with the DAC, and
- geographical boundaries of the DAC that provide a flight path from the entry point to the landing site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.