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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2019
Applicant:
Performance Drone Works Llc, Huntsville, AL (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Performance Drone Works LLC, Huntsville, AL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05B 13/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0202 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G05B 13/0265 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); B64C 2201/027 (2013.01); B64C 2201/141 (2013.01); B64C 2201/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
An autonomous quadcopter has four motors, each motor coupled to a corresponding propeller and a flight controller coupled to the four motors to provide input to the four motors to control flight. The autonomous quadcopter also has a plurality of cameras and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) controller coupled to the plurality of cameras to receive input from the plurality of cameras, determine a flightpath for the autonomous quadcopter according to the input from the plurality of cameras, and provide commands to the flight controller to direct the flight controller to follow the flightpath.