Drone pre-mapping
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsYevgeni Gehtman, Tomer Shachar, Arieh Don
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Abstract
In an example, a system performs the following. The system, while the system is traveling to a destination associated with a first entity, determines that an edge device associated with a second entity is located within a specified distance from the system, wherein the system is associated with the first entity. The system maps at least part of a physical area associated with the edge device, to produce mapping information. The system enables the mapping information to be accessible to the second entity, wherein the mapping information being accessible to the second entity enables a drone associated with the second entity to use the mapping information to establish a light-based communications channel with the edge device.
Claims20
A first aerial drone, comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- while the first aerial drone is traveling to a destination associated with a first entity, determining that an edge device associated with a second entity is located within a specified distance from the first aerial drone, wherein the first aerial drone is associated with the first entity;
- based on the determining that the edge device associated with the second entity is located within the specified distance from the first aerial drone, autonomously mapping, by the first aerial drone, at least part of a physical area associated with the edge device, to produce mapping information;
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- enabling the mapping information to be accessible to the second entity, wherein the mapping information being accessible to the second entity enables a second aerial drone associated with the second entity to use the mapping information to establish a light-based communications channel with the edge device, and wherein the first aerial drone is separate from the second aerial drone.
A method, comprising:
- while traveling to a destination associated with a first entity, determining, by a first aerial drone comprising at least one processor, that an edge device associated with a second entity is within a predefined distance from the first aerial drone, wherein the first aerial drone is associated with the first entity;
- and
- based on the determining that the edge device is located within the predefined distance from the first aerial drone, autonomously mapping, by the first aerial drone, at least part of a physical area associated with the edge device, to produce mapping information, a second aerial drone of the second entity able to use the mapping information to establish a light-based communications channel with the edge device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution, cause a first aerial drone comprising at least one processor to perform operations, comprising:
- while moving to a destination associated with a first entity, determining that a device associated with a second entity is within a determined distance from the first aerial drone, wherein the first aerial drone is associated with the first entity;
- and
- based on the determining that the device is located within the determined distance from the first aerial drone, autonomously mapping, by the first aerial drone, part of an area associated with the device, to produce mapping information, a second aerial drone deployed by the second entity using the mapping information to establish a communications channel with the device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.