Automated assignment of uavs to staging pads
AssigneeWing Aviation LLC
InventorsReia Cho, Kevin Jenkins, Damien Jourdan
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Abstract
A method for automated assignment of a staging pad to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes: launching the UAV from a launch location; tracking a drift of the UAV from the launch location; determining a subsequent position of the UAV after the launching based upon geofiducial navigation; calculating an estimated position of the launch location by offsetting the subsequent position by the drift; attempting to match the estimated position to an available staging pad of a plurality of staging pads; and assigning the UAV to the available staging pad when the estimated position successfully matches to the available staging pad.
Claims21
A method for automated assignment of a staging pad to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the method comprising:
- launching the UAV from a launch location;
- tracking a drift of the UAV from the launch location;
- determining a subsequent position of the UAV after the launching based upon geofiducial navigation;
- calculating an estimated position of the launch location by offsetting the subsequent position by the drift;
- attempting to match the estimated position to an available staging pad of a plurality of staging pads;
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- assigning the UAV to the available staging pad when the estimated position successfully matches to the available staging pad.
At least one machine-accessible storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), will cause the UAV to perform operations comprising:
- launching the UAV from a launch location;
- tracking a drift of the UAV from the launch location;
- determining a subsequent position of the UAV after the launching based upon geofiducial navigation;
- calculating an estimated position of the launch location by offsetting the subsequent position by the drift;
- attempting to match the estimated position to an available staging pad of a plurality of staging pads;
- and
- assigning the UAV to the available staging pad when the estimated position successfully matches to the available staging pad.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.