Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Commercial and general aircraft avoidance using acoustic pattern recognition
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Application No.: US14569183Application Date: 2014-12-12
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Publication No.: US09685089B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Nathan Michael Paczan , Daniel Buchmueller
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, PLLC
- Main IPC: G01C21/12
- IPC: G01C21/12 ; G08G5/00 ; G01S5/18 ; G05D1/10 ; G08G5/04 ; G01S15/02 ; G10K11/34 ; H04L29/08

Abstract:
This disclosure is directed to a detection and avoidance apparatus for an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) and systems, devices, and techniques pertaining to automated object detection and avoidance during UAV flight. The system may detect objects within the UAV's airspace through acoustic, visual, infrared, multispectral, hyperspectral, or object detectable signal emitted or reflected from an object. The system may identify the source of the object detectable signal by comparing features of the received signal with known sources signals in a database. The features may include, for example, an acoustic signature emitted or reflected by the objet. Furthermore, a trajectory envelope for the object may be determined based on characteristic performance parameters for the object such as cursing speed, maneuverability, etc. The UAV may determine an optimized flight plan based on the trajectory envelopes of detected objects within the UAV's air-space.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160247405A1 Commercial and General Aircraft Avoidance using Acoustic Pattern Recognition Public/Granted day:2016-08-25
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