Patent ID: 11945582
Assignee: SKYGRID, LLC
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 4:
5. An apparatus for coordinating an aerial search among unmanned aerial vehicles, the apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions, the instructions executable by the processor to:
receive from a device, by a server in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) transportation ecosystem, search area data including a set of global positioning system (GPS) coordinates, a type of UAV, and a time limit;
generate, by the server based on the set of GPS coordinates, a search area polygon;
determine, by the server, that vertices of the search area polygon define two or more monotone polygons;
partition, by the server, the search area polygon into two or more monotonic partitions in accordance with the two or more monotone polygons;
determine, by the server, a total number of UAVs needed to complete a sweep search of the two or more monotonic partitions within the time limit based on UAV parameters of the type of UAV, wherein the UAV parameters include a maximum speed for the type of UAV, a maximum runtime for the type of UAV, and a power consumption relationship between speed and runtime for the type of UAV;
generate, by the server based on the total number of UAVs needed, UAV route instructions for executing a sweep search path in each of the two more monotonic partitions; and
control, by the server, a set of UAVs in performing a coordinated aerial search of the two or more monotonic partitions based on the UAV route instructions, the set of UAVs having the total number of UAVs needed to complete a sweep search of the two or more monotonic partitions within the time limit.