UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE HEAT SENSOR CALIBRATION

Patent №

US 9,969,486

Granted

2018-05-15

Filed 2016

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15188922

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for automating the verification of aerial vehicle sensors as part of a pre-flight, flight departure, in-transit flight, and/or delivery destination calibration verification process. At different stages, aerial vehicle sensors may obtain sensor measurements about objects within an environment, the obtained measurements may be processed to determine information about the object, as presented in the measurements, and the processed information may be compared with the actual information about the object to determine a variation or difference between the information. If the variation is within a tolerance range, the sensor may be auto adjusted and operation of the aerial vehicle may continue. If the variation exceeds a correction range, flight of the aerial vehicle may be aborted and the aerial vehicle routed for a full sensor calibration.

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AI classification

Planning1.00
Vision0.86
AI hardware0.01
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 394690697

Assignors

O'BRIEN, BARRY JAMES, WILCOX, SCOTT MICHAEL, WATSON, JOSHUA JOHN

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

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