公开(公告)号：US09262929B1

公开(公告)日：2016-02-16

申请号：US14274694

申请日：2014-05-10

Applicant: Google Inc.

Inventor： Nick Roy ,  Leila Takayama ,  Mathias Samuel Fleck ,  Roger William Graves

IPC: G01C23/00 ,  G08G5/00

CPC classification number: G08G5/0034 ,  G06Q10/047 ,  G08G5/0026 ,  G08G5/006 ,  G08G5/0069

Abstract: Embodiments described herein may help to automatically create flight plans that incorporate information regarding a number of different societal considerations. An illustrative computer-implemented method may involve receiving societal-consideration data for a plurality of geographic areas over which unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are deployable. For a given geographic area from the plurality of geographic areas, the societal-consideration data may include one or more land-use indications for the geographic area that are indicative of a type of land use in the geographic area. The method may also involve, for each of one or more of the plurality of geographic areas: applying a cost function to the one or more land-use indications for the geographic area to determine a societal-consideration cost of UAV flight over the geographic area; and sending an indication of the determined societal-consideration cost to a computer-based flight planner.

Abstract translation: 本文描述的实施例可以有助于自动创建包含关于多个不同社会考虑事项的信息的飞行计划。 示例性的计算机实现的方法可以涉及接收用于无人机（UAV）可部署的多个地理区域的社会考虑数据。 对于来自多个地理区域的给定地理区域，社会考虑数据可以包括指示地理区域中的土地利用类型的地理区域的一个或多个土地利用指示。 所述方法还可以涉及对于所述多个地理区域中的一个或多个地区中的每一个：对所述地理区域的所述一个或多个土地利用指示应用成本函数，以确定所述地理区域上的无人机飞行的社会考虑成本 ; 并将确定的社会考虑成本的指示发送给基于计算机的飞行计划员。