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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2018
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Steven Gregory Dunn, Bothell, WA (US);
Carl Ryan Kelso, Seattle, WA (US);
Neil Whitney Woodward, III, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/12 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); B64C 2201/128 (2013.01); B64C 2201/141 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.