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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jui-Hsin Lai, White Plains, NY (US);

Yu Ma, White Plains, NY (US);

Conglei Shi, New York, NY (US);

Yinglong Xia, Rye Brook, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0027 (2013.01); G05D 1/104 (2013.01); G08G 5/0013 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

At each of a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles operating in a three-dimensional space, current relative locations of other ones of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles which are visible to each of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles are determined based on two-dimensional camera images from on-board dual-lens cameras. The current relative locations are wirelessly transmitted to a controller. At the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, specification of a path to be followed by each of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles is wirelessly received from the controller. At each of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, on-board collision avoidance is carried out based on the two-dimensional camera images from the on-board dual-lens cameras, while following the path specification.


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