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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2017
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bradford H. Needham, North Plains, OR (US);
Douglas Paul Bogia, Forest Grove, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods for providing and deploying a power harvesting drone are described herein. A power harvesting drone includes a motor assembly; an energy replenishment coupler; a processor communicatively coupled to the energy replenishment coupler; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to: operate the power harvesting drone to navigate a predetermined path; determine that a power supply used to operate the power harvesting drone is below a threshold of remaining power; identify an opportunistic energy source; and deviate from the predetermined path to replenish at least a portion of the power supply from the opportunistic energy source using the energy replenishment coupler onboard the power harvesting drone.