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, by a cloud system in wireless communication with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), allocated geofence envelopes for one or more of the UAVs, with each geofence envelope being a virtual barrier for a real-world geographic area. A request for approval of an updated geofence envelope is received from a first UAV in flight. The cloud system determines that the updated geofence envelope has not been allocated and/or the updated geofence envelope does not interfere with allocated geofence envelopes. In response to the determination, a response indicating approval of the request is generated. The generated response is provided to the first UAV.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
maintaining, by a cloud system, comprising one or more processing devices comprising hardware, in wireless communication with a plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), allocated geofence envelopes for one or more of the UAVs, wherein each geofence envelope is a virtual barrier for a real-world geographic area; receiving, by the cloud system, a request from a first UAV in flight for approval of an updated geofence envelope; determining, by the cloud system, that:
the updated geofence envelope has not been allocated, orthe updated geofence envelope does not interfere with geofence envelopes allocated to the UAVs, orthe updated geofence envelope has not been allocated and the updated geofence envelope does not interfere with geofence envelopes allocated to the UAVs; at least partly in response to the determination that:
the updated geofence envelope has not been allocated, orthe updated geofence envelope does not interfere with geofence envelopes allocated to the UAVs, orthe updated geofence envelope has not been allocated and the updated geofence envelope does not interfere with geofence envelopes allocated to the UAVs; generating, by the cloud system, a response indicating approval of the request for the updated geofence envelope; and providing, by the cloud system, the generated response to the first UAV indicating approval of the request for the updated geofence envelope.