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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2019
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Robert L. Cantrell, Herndon, VA (US);
Donald R. High, Noel, MO (US);
Samantha M. Mangosing, Bella Vista, AR (US);
David C. Winkle, Bella Vista, AR (US);
John J. O'Brien, Bella Vista, AR (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided that provide for creating and monitoring predefined mission routes along air rails and non-overlapping buffer zones surrounding unmanned vehicles during travel of the unmanned vehicles along the predefined mission routes. The buffer zone may be thought of as a projected movement variation area being associated by the system to the UAV and containing four dimensions, the three positional dimensions, X, Y, and Z, along with a temporal one, time. Generally, the buffer zone will change as ambient conditions, location, and orientation of an unmanned vehicle change during travel of the unmanned vehicle along its predefined mission route.