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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2024
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
John-Michael Mcnew, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory includes instructions that cause the processor to determine, based on images of an off-road trail captured by an aerial drone in communication with a vehicle, whether the off-road trail has a positive condition indicating that the vehicle can traverse the off-road trail or an abandonment condition indicating that the vehicle cannot traverse the off-road trail. Depending on the determination, the processor either controls the aerial drone to navigate along the off-road trail or controls the aerial drone to navigate to a different off-road trail.