Patent ID: 11945580
Assignee: nan
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A method for cleaning vehicle sensors, comprising:
receiving, at a service station, position data for a vehicle via a mobile data connection;
receiving, at the service station, sensor data for the vehicle via the mobile data connection, wherein the sensor data comprises data indicating a type of sensor and/or the urgency of the cleaning required;
selecting, at the service station, an unmanned vehicle from the service station, based on the received sensor data;
causing the selected unmanned aircraft to fly to the vehicle on the basis of the position data received for the vehicle;
positioning the unmanned aircraft in proximity to the vehicle to clean a predetermined sensor based on the sensor data and location data; and
causing the unmanned aircraft to perform a cleaning operation on the predetermined sensor; and
causing the unmanned aircraft to return to the service station after the cleaning operation is completed.