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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2022
Skydio, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Peter Henry, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jack Zhu, San Mateo, CA (US);
Brian Richman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Harrison Zheng, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hayk Martirosyan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Donahoe, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abraham Galton Bachrach, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Adam Bry, Redwood City, CA (US);
Skydio, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein are systems for roof scan using an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, some methods include capturing, using an unmanned aerial vehicle, an overview image of a roof of a building from above the roof; presenting a suggested bounding polygon overlaid on the overview image to a user; determining a bounding polygon based on the suggested bounding polygon and user edits; based on the bounding polygon, determining a flight path including a sequence of poses of the unmanned aerial vehicle with respective fields of view at a fixed height that collectively cover the bounding polygon; fly the unmanned aerial vehicle to a sequence of scan poses with horizontal positions matching respective poses of the flight path and vertical positions determined to maintain a consistent distance above the roof; and scanning the roof from the sequence of scan poses to generate a three-dimensional map of the roof.