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

Claim 15:
16. A method of vehicle operation for autonomous navigation of a flight path comprising:
utilizing a vehicle comprising one or more onboard sensors and a local database, the local database storing pre-loaded data, the pre-loaded data comprising: object information for predetermined objects associated with a planned flight path, and contextual information of a surrounding area associated with the predetermined flight path;
the method further comprising:
using the one or more onboard sensors of the vehicle to scan a surrounding environment of the vehicle and detect an object in the surrounding environment;
matching the detected object in the surrounding environment to a predetermined object based on the object information from the pre-loaded data;
determining dimensions of the detected object by measuring lengths of multiple sides of the detected object and an angle of a corner of the detected object and inferring the dimensions of the detected object, including dimensions of surfaces that are not detectable by the one or more onboard sensors, based on the measured lengths and angle of the detected object in combination with the contextual information on the surrounding area from the pre-loaded data;
calculating multiple flight routes for navigating the vehicle around the detected object and travelling to a target location along the flight path based on the determined dimensions of the detected object;
identifying, among the multiple calculated flight routes, a flight route having a shortest distance for navigating around the detected object and travelling to the target location; and
controlling 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.