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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2019
Skydio, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Benjamin Scott Thompson, San Carlos, CA (US);
Adam Parker Bry, San Mateo, CA (US);
Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abraham Galton Bachrach, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick Allen Lowe, Burlingame, CA (US);
Daniel Thomas Adams, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Justin Michael Sadowski, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Zachary Albert West, Mountain View, CA (US);
Josiah Timothy VanderMey, Redwood City, CA (US);
Skydio, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An introduced autonomous aerial vehicle can include multiple cameras for capturing images of a surrounding physical environment that are utilized for motion planning by an autonomous navigation system. In some embodiments, the cameras can be integrated into one or more rotor assemblies that house powered rotors to free up space within the body of the aerial vehicle. In an example embodiment, an aerial vehicle includes multiple upward-facing cameras and multiple downward-facing cameras with overlapping fields of view to enable stereoscopic computer vision in a plurality of directions around the aerial vehicle. Similar camera arrangements can also be implemented in fixed-wing aerial vehicles.