Responsive Navigation of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to a Remedial Facility

Patent №

US 8,909,391

Granted

2014-12-09

Filed 2012

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13730110

The present disclosure relates to a deployment system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In one aspect, an illustrative deployment system includes a communication system configured for receiving diagnostic data corresponding to an object held by a UAV, wherein the object has an expiration condition; and a logic module configured for (i) determining that the expiration condition has been satisfied based, at least in part, on the received diagnostic data, and (ii) responsive to determining that the expiration condition has been satisfied, initiating an action that includes sending to the UAV both (a) navigation data relating to a remedial facility, and (b) instructions to navigate to the remedial facility based, at least in part, on the navigation data.

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AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware0.41
Vision0.07
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 295950206

Assignors

PEETERS, ERIC, TELLER, ERIC, PATRICK, WILLIAM GRAHAM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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