US 2023/0351899 A1 · NAVIGATION CORRECTION FOR EXCESSIVE WIND

Abstract

Systems, computer readable medium and methods for navigation correction for excessive wind in an autonomous drone are disclosed. Excessive winds can be a particular problem for small autonomous drones as safety and retrieval of the autonomous drones is important and the autonomous drones often have limited thrust and batteries. Autonomous drones are disclosed that detect and correct flight plans when excessive winds are detected. The autonomous drone determines based on the severity of the excessive winds whether to return to a home position which is typically a position of a user of the autonomous drone or to land in place. If the excessive winds subside, then the autonomous drone returns to its original flight plan at the point where the autonomous drone was blown off course by the excessive winds. The autonomous drone detects excessive winds either directly by sensor data or inferentially by unanticipated movement of the autonomous drone.

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Dependent claims

A navigation system of an autonomous drone comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the system to perform operations comprising:
causing an autonomous drone to take off from a home position based on a flight plan;
navigating the autonomous drone in accordance with the flight plan;
in response to detecting a wind speed exceeding a nominal threshold, determining an updated flight plan to return to the home position, and navigating the autonomous drone in accordance with the updated flight plan;
and
in response to detecting the wind speed exceeding a critical threshold, navigating the autonomous drone to land in place.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Navigation correction for excessive wind

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Navigation correction for excessive wind

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Abstract

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