US 12,455,564 B2
Vehicle data sharing for coordinated robot actions
James Carthew, Ann Arbor, MI (US); Nelson Alexander Brock, Sebastopol, CA (US); and Jeffrey Yizhou Hu, Ann Arbor, MI (US)
Filed by Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/066,711.
Prior Publication US 2024/0201683 A1, Jun. 20, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 5/57 (2025.01); B64C 39/02 (2023.01); B64U 20/87 (2023.01); B64U 70/00 (2023.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B64U 101/20 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/0016 (2013.01) [B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64U 20/87 (2023.01); B64U 70/00 (2023.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01); G05D 1/12 (2013.01); B64U 2101/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle integrated unmanned aerial system comprising:
a vehicle comprising:
a vehicle control unit configured to measure a vehicle telemetry information;
a vehicle processor;
a vehicle memory operably coupled to the vehicle processor and storing instructions for execution on the vehicle processor, the instructions causing the vehicle processor to:
obtain information about a gear change status of the vehicle from the vehicle control unit;
and
a vehicle transmitter communicably coupled to the vehicle processor and configured to transmit the information about the gear change status of the vehicle; and
an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising:
a UAV receiver configured to receive the information about the gear change status of the vehicle from the vehicle transmitter;
a UAV processor configured to:
determine, based on the information about the gear change status of the vehicle that the vehicle is predicted to move in backward direction from its current position;
send, to the vehicle processor, an instruction to pause the vehicle motion in the backward direction until the UAV has moved away from the backward direction of the motion of the vehicle; and
cause the vehicle processor to stop vehicle motion in the backward direction.