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Patent No.:

US 9964951 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2015

Fiducial-based navigation of unmanned vehicles

Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Steven Gregory Dunn, Bothell, WA (US);

Carl Ryan Kelso, Seattle, WA (US);

Neil Whitney Woodward, III, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

Primary Examiner:

Rami Khatib

Assistant Examiner:

Gerrad A Foster

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/12 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/10 (2006.01); G08G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G08G 5/0069 (2013.01); B64C 2201/128 (2013.01); B64C 2201/141 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Dunn, Steven. (2018). Fiducial-based navigation of unmanned vehicles (U.S. Patent No. 9964951). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9964951

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