US 12,078,992 B2
Unmanned aerial vehicle aerial spraying control
Michael Norcia, Berkeley, CA (US); Nathan White, Berkeley, CA (US); Tobias Wurft, Geraldine (NZ); Kyle Moore, Oakland, CA (US); Garrett Rini, Oakland, CA (US); Jason Petersen, San Francisco, CA (US); and Chukwuma Ogunwole, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Pyka, Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/913,402
Filed by Pyka Inc., Oakland, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 16, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/027802
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/216379, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 28, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/013,472, filed on Apr. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112766 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); A01M 7/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64D 1/18 (2006.01); B64U 10/25 (2023.01); B64U 101/45 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/0094 (2013.01) [A01M 7/0032 (2013.01); A01M 7/0089 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64D 1/18 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); B64U 10/25 (2023.01); B64U 2101/45 (2023.01); B64U 2201/10 (2023.01); B64U 2201/104 (2023.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system comprising one or more processors comprising hardware, the one or more processors configured to perform operations comprising:
autonomously perform a flight path having multiple legs by the UAV, the UAV being a fixed-wing UAV;
disperse a chemical along portions of the flight path; and
while performing the flight path, dynamically adjust the flight path to account for wind conditions and disperse the chemical at adjusted portions of the flight path such that the chemical would land at a predetermined target area;
wherein the UAV includes a chemical spray system which comprises:
one or more spray booms attached to a body of the UAV, the spray booms having multiple nozzles for dispersing the chemical;
one or more tanks attached to the body of the UAV; and
a pump fluidly connected to the tanks and the spray booms.