Drone carrier

US10013886B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jeanette L. Blomberg · Portola Valley, US
• Eric K. Butler · San Jose, US
• Anca A. Chandra · Los Gatos, US
• Pawan R. Chowdhary · San Jose, US
• Thomas D. Griffin · Campbell, US
• Divyesh Jadav · San Jose, US
• Shun Jiang · Beijing, CN
• Sunhwan Lee · Menlo Park, US
• Robert J. Moore · San Jose, US
• Hovey R. Strong, Jr. · San Jose, US
• Chung-hao Tan · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 8, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/23328
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method comprising receiving a task set comprising multiple tasks, receiving operational information identifying one or more operating characteristics of multiple drones, and obtaining an initial heuristic ordering of the multiple tasks based on the operational information and the climate information. Each task has a corresponding task location. The method further comprises scheduling the multiple tasks to obtain a final ordering of the multiple tasks. The final ordering represents an order in which the multiple tasks are scheduled, and the final ordering may be different from the initial heuristic ordering.