Abstract Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking objects in a physical environment
using visual sensors onboard an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In certain …

Methods and systems are disclosed for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to
autonomously navigate a physical environment while capturing images of the physical …

A controller/application synchronizes a camera's image capture rate with a LIDAR light burst
rate and direction. A user may identify and manually bound an object-of-interest in an image …

Dynamically steering a LIDAR to regions of a field of view with more information (eg the
detailed boundaries of objects) is beneficial. Within embodiments a time target to complete a …

LIDAR measurements can be sparse in comparison to camera measurements. Hence,
dynamically steering a LIDAR to regions of a field of view with more information (eg the …

A method for processing point clouds having variable spatial distributions of scan lines
includes receiving a point cloud frame generated by a sensor configured to sense an …

Mounting a LIDAR above or external to a vehicle can enhance the LIDAR field of view but
can conflict with vehicle aesthetics and ergonomics. Within embodiments, vehicle-integrated …

Embodiments are described for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured for
autonomous flight using visual navigation that includes a perimeter structure surrounding …

The systems and methods disclosed herein include a path integration system that calculates
optic flow, infers angular velocity from the flow field, and incorporates this velocity estimate …

Methods and systems are described for new paradigms for user interaction with an
unmanned aerial vehicle (referred to as a flying digital assistant or FDA) using a portable …