This disclosure describes an automated aerial vehicle that includes one or more object detection elements configured to detect the presence of objects and an avoidance determining element configured to cause the automated aerial vehicle to automatically determine and execute an avoidance maneuver to avoid the objects. For example, an object may be detected and an avoidance maneuver determined based on a position of the object and an object vector representative of a direction and a magnitude of velocity of the object.
Object avoidance for automated aerial vehicles
2017-11-07
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Object avoidance methods for automated aerial vehicles
Europäisches Patentamt | 2020
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