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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2020
Skydio, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jack Zhu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gareth Benoit Cross, San Carlos, CA (US);
Teodor Tomic, Redwood City, CA (US);
Adam Bry, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abraham Galton Bachrach, Redwood City, CA (US);
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems for automated docking of an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some systems include an unmanned aerial vehicle including a propulsion mechanism, an image sensor, and processing apparatus; and a dock including a landing surface configured to hold the unmanned aerial vehicle and a fiducial on the landing surface, wherein the processing apparatus is configured to: control the propulsion mechanism to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly to a first location in a vicinity of the dock; access one or more images captured using the image sensor; detect the fiducial in at least one of the one or more images; determine a pose of the fiducial based on the one or more images; and control, based on the pose of the fiducial, the propulsion mechanism to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to land on the landing surface.