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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2014
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Peeters, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eric Teller, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William Graham Patrick, San Francisco, CA (US);
X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a deployment system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In one aspect, an illustrative deployment system includes a communication system configured for receiving diagnostic data corresponding to an object included in a UAV, wherein the UAV has an expiration condition; and a logic module configured for (i) determining that the expiration condition has been satisfied based, at least in part, on the received diagnostic data, and (ii) responsive to determining that the expiration condition has been satisfied, initiating an action that includes sending to the UAV both (a) navigation data relating to a remedial facility, and (b) instructions to navigate to the remedial facility based, at least in part, on the navigation data.