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US 11,238,727 B2Granted
Aerial vehicle-ground vehicle coordination
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsOswaldo Perez Barrera, Alvaro Jimenez Hernandez
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Abstract
An aerial vehicle can proceed to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location. A user can be identified from an image captured at the target location. The aerial vehicle can be navigated to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle.
Claims20
A system, comprising an aerial vehicle computer programmed to:
- proceed to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location;
- identify a user from an image captured at the target location;
- and
- navigate the aerial vehicle to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle including by adjusting one or both of a speed and direction of the aerial vehicle according to detecting a speed and direction of the user following the aerial vehicle.
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A method, comprising:
- proceeding to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location;
- identifying a user from an image captured at the target location;
- and
- navigating the aerial vehicle to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle, including by adjusting one or both of a speed and direction of the aerial vehicle according to detecting a speed and direction of the user following the aerial vehicle.
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A system, comprising an aerial vehicle computer programmed to:
- proceed to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location, wherein the message that the ground vehicle is at the deploy location is sent only after the ground vehicle is stopped at a pickup location selected based on the target location;
- identify a user from an image captured at the target location;
- and
- navigate the aerial vehicle to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle.
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A system, comprising:
- an aerial vehicle computer programmed to:
- proceed to a target location upon receiving a message based on a ground vehicle being at an aerial vehicle deploy location;
- identify a user from an image captured at the target location;
- and
- navigate the aerial vehicle to lead the user to a rendezvous with the vehicle;
- and
- a ground vehicle computer, programmed to:
- provide the message that the ground vehicle is at the deploy location, and
- navigate the ground vehicle to the target location.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.