Patent ID: 11866167
Assignee: RHOMAN AEROSPACE CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 8:
9. An apparatus for autonomous navigation of a vehicle along a flight path comprising:
a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, and configured to store pre-loaded data, the pre-loaded data comprising: object information for predetermined objects associated with a flight path; and
one or more sensors configured to scan a surrounding environment of the vehicle and to detect an object in the surrounding environment,
wherein the computer system is further configured to:
match the object detected by the one or more sensors to a predetermined object based on the object information from the pre-loaded data;
determine dimensions of the detected object by comparing an apparent size of the detected object as imaged by the one or more sensors to a known size of the matched predetermined object based the object information from the pre-loaded data, wherein the determined dimensions of the detected object include dimensions of the detected object that are not detectable by the one or more onboard sensors;
calculate, based on the determined dimensions of the detected object, multiple flight routes for navigating the vehicle around the detected object and toward a target location along the flight path;
identify, among the multiple calculated flight routes, a flight route having a shortest distance for navigating the vehicle around the detected object and toward the target location; and
control a vehicle control system of the vehicle to navigate the vehicle to travel to the target location along the identified flight route having the shortest distance.