Applications and skills for an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle

A user computing device comprising:

• a wireless communication interface;
• a display device;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory, the memory having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by the processor, cause the user computing device to:
• display, via the display device, a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI including an interactive menu for selecting from a plurality of available skills, each of the plurality of available skills associated with a different mode of operation for an autonomous vehicle;
• receive, via the interactive menu, a user selection of a particular skill of the plurality of available skills;
• update display of the GUI to include a particular interactive element associated with the particular skill in response to the user selection;
• detect a user interaction with the particular interactive element in the GUI;
• and
• transmit, via the wireless communication interface, a command signal to the autonomous vehicle, the command signal configured to cause a call to an application programming interface (API) associated with a motion planner at the autonomous vehicle, the call to the API configured to adjust a parameter of a behavioral objective associated with a multi-objective trajectory generation process executed by the motion planner.

An autonomous aerial vehicle comprising:

• a sensor device configured to generate perception inputs based on a physical environment surrounding the autonomous vehicle;
• and
• a computer system coupled to the image capture device, the computer system configured to:
• expose, via an application programing interface (API), one or more variable parameters associated with a behavioral objective, the behavioral objective one of a plurality of behavioral objectives applied as part of a multi-objective trajectory generation process;
• receive, via the API, an input from an application, the input indicative of a request to adjust a particular parameter of the one or more parameters of the behavioral objective;
• adjust the particular parameter of the behavioral objective based on the input;
• receive the perception inputs from the sensor device;
• and
• process the perception inputs and one or more of the behavioral objectives to generate a three-dimensional trajectory through the physical environment.