UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE AUTHORIZATION AND GEOFENCE ENVELOPE DETERMINATION

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes maintaining, in a datastore, flight operation information associated with UAV flight operations. A request to generate a risk assessment report is received, with the request including aspects of a UAV flight operation, with the risk assessment report describing risk associated with each aspect. Flight operation information accessed from the datastore is analyzed. Performance characteristics are determined based at least in part on the analysis of the flight operation information, with the performance characteristics including information that can inform, or affect, a safe or functional UAV flight operation. Risk assessments for each aspects in the request are determined using the performance characteristics. The risk assessment report is generated using the determined risk assessments.

主权项

1. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) analysis system, comprising:
a computer data repository that stores flight operation information associated with a plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations, said computer data repository comprising a non-transitory storage device; and a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, said computing system programmed to implement:
an analysis engine, the analysis engine configured to:
receive a request to generate a risk assessment report that describes risk associated with a first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects;access historical flight information from the computer data repository;determine, based at least in part the accessed historical flight operation information, performance characteristics for the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects, wherein the performance characteristics related to UAV flight operation safety or UAV mission performance;determine, using the performance characteristics, risk assessments for each of the a first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects; andgenerate the risk assessment report using the determined risk assessments.