Patent ID: 9562773
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G01C,G01S,G05D,G08G

Claim:
1. A navigation system for an aerial vehicle, the navigation system comprising: a housing; a global positioning system (GPS) transceiver to determine a current position of the housing; an optical system to generate at least one hundred and eighty degrees of optical field of view about the housing, wherein the optical system is configured to identify a first obstacle within the at least one hundred and eighty degrees of optical field of view about the housing; an acoustic system to generate at least ten degrees of acoustic field of view about the housing, wherein the acoustic system is configured to identify a second obstacle within the at least one hundred and eighty degrees of optical field of view about the housing; and a processor to determine a navigational path for the aerial vehicle to a location based at least in part upon signals from the GPS transceiver, the optical system, and the acoustic system,