US 2021/0082291 A1Published application

Integrating air and ground data collection for improved drone operation

AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.

InventorsIan Andreas Villa, Philipp Haban, Eric Mueller, Lucas McPhee Fischer, Matthew William Derkach, John Conway Badalamenti

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Abstract

Disclosed are embodiments for employing off board sensors to augment data used by a ground based autonomous vehicle. In some aspects, the off-board sensors may be positioned on another autonomous vehicle, such as an aerial autonomous vehicle (AAV). The disclosed embodiments determine uncertainty scores associated with ground regions. The uncertainty scores indicate a need to reimage the ground regions. An AAV may be tasked to reimage a region having a relatively high uncertainty score, depending on a cost associated with the tasking.

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Dependent claims

A computing system comprising:

one or more hardware processors;
and
one or more tangible, non-transitory, computer readable media that collectively store instructions that when executed by the one or more hardware processors cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
obtaining data indicative of an initial route of an aerial vehicle and data indicative of one or more parameters associated with the aerial vehicle;
obtaining location data indicative of a location of a ground vehicle;
determining a deviation route for the aerial vehicle from the initial route of the aerial vehicle to a geographic area including the ground vehicle based on:
the data indicative of the initial route of the aerial vehicle, and
the location data indicative of the location of the ground vehicle;
determining to reroute the aerial vehicle, from the initial route, along the deviation route to collect image data associated with the geographic area based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the aerial vehicle;
and
communicating one or more commands to the aerial vehicle to divert the aerial vehicle to travel along the deviation route to the geographic area.

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A method, comprising:

obtaining data indicative of an initial route of an aerial vehicle and data indicative of one or more parameters associated with the aerial vehicle;
obtaining location data indicative of a location of a ground vehicle;
determining a deviation route for the aerial vehicle from the initial route of the aerial vehicle to a geographic area including the ground vehicle based on:
the data indicative of the initial route of the aerial vehicle, and
the location data indicative of the location of the ground vehicle;
determining to reroute the aerial vehicle, from the initial route, along the deviation route to collect image data associated with the geographic area based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the aerial vehicle;
and
communicating one or more commands to the aerial vehicle to divert the aerial vehicle to travel along the deviation route to the geographic area.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/948,394Filed 16 Sep 2020
Priority: 16 Sep 2019
Published: 18 Mar 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

G08G 5/34
Flight plan management: for flight plan modification
G06Q 10/02
Administration; Management: reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
G08G 5/22
Arrangements for acquiring, generating, sharing or displaying traffic information: located on the ground
G08G 5/26
Arrangements for acquiring, generating, sharing or displaying traffic information: transmission of traffic-related information between aircraft…

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Application62/901,156Us provisional application · filed 16 Sep 2019
US 11,694,557 B2Related patent
US 2021/0082291 A1This patent

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