Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Dawei Li

Yang Liu

Kah Kuen Fu

Chong Huang

Yibo Cao

An aerial vehicle is configured to calculate ranges to objects around the aerial vehicle when operating within indoor spaces, using a LIDAR sensor or another range sensor. The aerial vehicle calculates ranges within a plurality of sectors around the aerial vehicle and identifies a minimum distance measurement for each of the sectors. Sets of adjacent sectors having distance measurements above a threshold are identified, and bearings and minimum distance measurements of the sets of adjacent sectors are determined. When the aerial vehicle detects an object within a flight path, the aerial vehicle selects one of the sets of adjacent sectors based on the minimum distance measurements and executes a braking maneuver in a direction of the selected one of the sets of adjacent sectors.

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Dawei Li