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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2016
Wing Aviation Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Maxwell Andrew Sills, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ian Wetherbee, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Samuel Gordon, San Bruno, CA (US);
Wing Aviation LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for autonomous device reconfiguration are described herein. A system may include aerially-mobile devices each configured to perform a respective end-use function and carry out a portion of a reconfiguration operation, which involves arranging the one or more aerially-mobile devices according to a device configuration. A given device configuration may specify spatial locations within an environment corresponding to the aerially-mobile devices. The system may also include a control system configured to facilitate a reconfiguration operation by executing instructions including: (i) determining, for each aerially-mobile device, a respective spatial location associated with a particular device configuration; (ii) detecting a triggering event indicative of an instruction to arrange aerially-mobile devices according to the particular device configuration; and (iii) responsive to the detection of the triggering event, causing each aerially-mobile device to begin flying to its respective spatial location associated with the particular configuration.