Wing Aviation LLC

Konstantin Bozhkov

Dinuka Abeywardena

Stephen Lacy

Kyle Krafka

Kyle Julian

Aditya Undurti

Sai Bhargav Yalamanchi

Domitille Commun

Kyle Kakligian

Linhao Jin

Xinzhi Fan

Brandon Jones

Scott Barron

A method includes receiving a digital surface model of an area for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation. The digital surface model represents an environmental surface in the area. The method includes determining, for each grid cell of a plurality of grid cells in the area, a confidence value of an altitude of the environmental surface at the grid cell and determining a terrain clearance value based at least on the confidence value of the altitude of the environmental surface at the grid cell. The method includes determining a route for a UAV through the area such that the altitude of the UAV is above the altitude of the environmental surface at each grid cell of a sequence of grid cells of the route by at least the terrain clearance value determined for the grid cell. The method includes causing the UAV to navigate through the area using the determined route.

Processes for generating and updating flyable airspace for unmanned aerial vehicles

A method of operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) service includes acquiring aerial images of a scene at an area of interest (AOI), wherein the aerial images are acquired with a UAV of the UAV service during a flight mission of the UAV that passes over the AOI; uploading a mission log of the flight mission to a backend data system of the UAV service, the mission log including image data that includes, or is derived from, at least a portion of the aerial images; and training a neural radiance field (NeRF) model with one or more of the aerial images, wherein the NeRF model comprises a neural network, which after the training, encodes a volumetric representation of the scene capable of generating novel views of the scene different than any of the aerial images used to train the NeRF model.

Using NeRF models to facilitate operations of a UAV delivery service

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Konstantin Bozhkov