Patent ID: 11873116
Assignee: SKYDIO, INC.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
an unmanned aerial vehicle including a propulsion mechanism, an image sensor, and a processing apparatus; and
a dock including a landing surface, wherein the landing surface is movable along a generally horizontal axis of movement and the unmanned aerial vehicle approaches the dock in a generally vertical landing direction, the landing surface being configured to hold the unmanned aerial vehicle and including a fiducial, wherein the processing apparatus is configured to:
control the propulsion mechanism to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to fly to a first location in a vicinity of the dock;
access one or more images captured using the image sensor;
detect the fiducial in at least one of the one or more images;
determine a pose of the fiducial based on the one or more images; and
control, based on the pose of the fiducial, the propulsion mechanism to cause the unmanned aerial vehicle to land on the landing surface.