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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2018
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher McFarland, Seattle, WA (US);
David Moro-Ludena, Arlington, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Flow conditions affecting an aerial vehicle may be determined using one or more auxiliary aerial vehicles, which may be outfitted with one or more airspeed sensors and other systems for modeling air flow within a vicinity of the aerial vehicle. With the auxiliary aerial vehicles operating in selected positions or formations with respect to the aerial vehicle, the aerial vehicle may perform one or more testing evolutions requiring the operation of any propulsion motors, control surfaces or other systems. Flow conditions during the testing evolutions may be modeled based on data captured by sensors aboard the auxiliary aerial vehicles, and the modeled flow conditions may be used to determine whether the testing evolutions were successfully completed by the aerial vehicle.