UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE INSPECTION SYSTEM

Patent №

US 9,513,635

Granted

2016-12-06

Filed 2016

Owner

UNMANNED INNOVATION, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15059154

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes obtaining, from a user device, flight operation information describing an inspection of a vertical structure to be performed, the flight operation information including locations of one or more safe locations for vertical inspection. A location of the UAV is determined to correspond to a first safe location for vertical inspection. A first inspection of the structure is performed is performed at the first safe location, the first inspection including activating cameras. A second safe location is traveled to, and a second inspection of the structure is performed. Information associated with the inspection is provided to the user device.

PlanningG05D 1/0094G01C 21/20B64U 10/14B64U 50/19B64U 2101/26B64U 2101/30B64U 2201/20

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.15
Vision0.02
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

UNMANNED INNOVATION, INC.

assignment · 379130689

Assignors

BETHKE, BRETT MICHAEL, LI, HUI, MICHINI, BERNARD J.

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

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