A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to track a monitored person is provided. The method includes directing the UAV toward a target location the target location being based on past or present location information provided by a personal monitoring device attached to a monitored person, the location information representing the location of the personal monitoring device; assuming with the UAV a surveillance position relative to the target location; and determining that the monitored device is proximate to the target location by receiving signals from the personal monitoring device and/or observing the monitored person through a camera on the UAV.
Arial based parolee tracking and pursuit
2022-05-24
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G01S RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING , Funkpeilung / B64C AEROPLANES , Flugzeuge / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL / G06V / G08B SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS , Signalisier- oder Rufsysteme / H04N PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION , Bildübertragung, z.B. Fernsehen |