Unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination
First Claim
1. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) analysis system, comprising:
- a computer data repository that stores flight operation information associated with a plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations, including historical flight information for historical flight operations which have already occurred, said computer data repository comprising a non-transitory storage device; and
a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, said computing system programmed to implement;
an analysis engine, the analysis engine configured to;
receive a request to generate a risk assessment report that describes risk associated with an upcoming flight operation, the upcoming flight operation comprising a first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects;
analyze, prior to the upcoming flight operation and using the computer data repository, historical flight information, the historical flight information describing a first plurality of historical flight operations that each included one or more of the plurality of UAV flight operation aspects;
determine, based, at least in part, on the accessed historical flight information, performance characteristics for the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects, wherein the performance characteristics include information that informs a safe or functional UAV flight operation, and wherein one or more of the performance characteristics describe determined degradation of a component, indicated by a first UAV flight operation aspect of the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects, that will be utilized during the upcoming flight operation;
determine, using the performance characteristics, risk assessments for each of the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects; and
generate, for presentation, the risk assessment report using the determined risk assessments.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes maintaining, in a datastore, flight operation information associated with UAV flight operations. A request to generate a risk assessment report is received, with the request including aspects of a UAV flight operation, with the risk assessment report describing risk associated with each aspect. Flight operation information accessed from the datastore is analyzed. Performance characteristics are determined based at least in part on the analysis of the flight operation information, with the performance characteristics including information that can inform, or affect, a safe or functional UAV flight operation. Risk assessments for each aspects in the request are determined using the performance characteristics. The risk assessment report is generated using the determined risk assessments.
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25 Claims
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1. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) analysis system, comprising:
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a computer data repository that stores flight operation information associated with a plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations, including historical flight information for historical flight operations which have already occurred, said computer data repository comprising a non-transitory storage device; and a computing system comprising one or more computing devices, said computing system programmed to implement; an analysis engine, the analysis engine configured to; receive a request to generate a risk assessment report that describes risk associated with an upcoming flight operation, the upcoming flight operation comprising a first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects; analyze, prior to the upcoming flight operation and using the computer data repository, historical flight information, the historical flight information describing a first plurality of historical flight operations that each included one or more of the plurality of UAV flight operation aspects; determine, based, at least in part, on the accessed historical flight information, performance characteristics for the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects, wherein the performance characteristics include information that informs a safe or functional UAV flight operation, and wherein one or more of the performance characteristics describe determined degradation of a component, indicated by a first UAV flight operation aspect of the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects, that will be utilized during the upcoming flight operation; determine, using the performance characteristics, risk assessments for each of the first plurality of UAV flight operation aspects; and generate, for presentation, the risk assessment report using the determined risk assessments. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer implemented method comprising:
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maintaining in a data store, by a computer system comprising hardware, flight operation information associated with a plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations, including historical flight operation information for historical flight operations which have already occurred; receiving, at the computer system, a request to generate a risk assessment report that describes risk associated with an upcoming flight operation, the request indicating one or more aspects of the upcoming flight operation, wherein the risk assessment report describes risk associated with each aspect; analyzing, prior to the upcoming flight operation and using the maintained flight operation information, historical flight operation information describing a first plurality of historical flight operations that each included one or more of the aspects of the upcoming flight operation; determining by the computer system, based at least in part on the analysis of the historical flight operation information, performance characteristics for each aspect in the request, wherein the performance characteristics include information that informs a safe or functional UAV flight operation, and wherein one or more of the performance characteristics describe determined degradation of a component, indicated by a first aspect of the one or more aspects, that will be utilized during the upcoming flight operation; determining by the computer system, using the performance characteristics, risk assessments for each aspect indicated by the request; and generating, for presentation and by the computer system the risk assessment report using the determined risk assessments. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer program product encoded on one or more non-transitory computer storage media, comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
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maintaining flight operation information associated with a plurality of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations, including historical flight operation information for historical flight operations which have already occurred; receiving a request to generate a risk assessment report that describes risk associated with an upcoming flight operation, the request indicating one or more aspects of the upcoming flight operation, wherein the risk assessment report describes risk associated with each aspect; analyzing, prior to the upcoming flight operation and using the maintained flight operation information, historical flight operation information describing a first plurality of historical flight operations that each included one or more of the aspects of the upcoming flight operation; determining, based at least in part on the analysis of the historical flight operation information, performance characteristics for each aspect in the request, wherein the performance characteristics include information that informs a safe or functional UAV flight operation, and wherein one or more performance characteristics describe determined degradation of a component, indicated by a first aspect of the one or more aspects, that will be utilized during the upcoming flight operation; determining, using the performance characteristics, risk assessments for each aspect indicated by the request; and generating, for presentation, the risk assessment using the determined risk assessments. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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