Patent ID: 11887042
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a server, comprising a computing system, configured to:
store delivery information on a delivery, drone information regarding a drone to be used for the delivery, and vehicle information regarding a vehicle that the drone is to board;
control the drone, through the delivery information, the drone information, and the vehicle information, to board and travel on the vehicle, or to depart the vehicle;
make a request for paying a delivery deposit upon receiving a delivery request from a designated user terminal of a customer;
control the drone aboard the vehicle to fly to a delivery origin after the delivery deposit is paid;
use image data and weight data respectively collected by a camera and a weight sensor of the drone to calculate a delivery cost of a package, wherein the image data comprise information whether the package, based on its size, is deliverable by the drone;
request to repack the package when it is determined that the drone is unable to deliver the package based on the collected image data and the collected weight data; and
control the drone to return without returning the delivery deposit to the customer, according to a first implementation, when it is determined that the customer refuses to allow repacking or that the delivery request is cancelled.