Skydio, Inc.

Rowland Wilde O'Flaherty

Abraham Galton Bachrach

Hayk Martirosyan

Jack Louis Zhu

Kristen Marie Holtz

Teodor Tomic

A technique is introduced for touchdown detection during autonomous landing by an aerial vehicle. In some embodiments, the introduced technique includes processing perception inputs with a dynamics model of the aerial vehicle to estimate the external forces and/or torques acting on the aerial vehicle. The estimated external forces and/or torques are continually monitored while the aerial vehicle is landing to determine when the aerial vehicle is sufficiently supported by a landing surface. In some embodiments, semantic information associated with objects in the environment is utilized to configure parameters associated with the touchdown detection process.

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Rowland Wilde O'Flaherty