Mitigating noise exposure to unmanned aerial vehicles

US10515557B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Wing Aviation LLC · US

Inventors

• Martin Kubie · San Francisco, US
• Adam Woodworth · San Jose, US
• Jesse Blake · Sunnyvale, US
• Reinaldo Negron · Palo Alto, US
• James Ryan Burgess · Redwood City, US
• Andre Prager · Sunnyvale, US
• Stephen Lacy · Mountain View, US
• Giulia Pantalone · Mountain View, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 20, 2017
• Grant date: Dec 24, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/101
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A computer implemented method of distributing noise exposures to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) over a neighborhood includes: receiving flight routing requests to fly the UAVs over the neighborhood; accessing a noise exposure map stored in a noise exposure database in response to the flight routing requests; and generating new flight paths for the UAVs over the neighborhood that load level additional noise exposures that the new flight paths will contribute to the noise exposure map. The noise exposure map includes noise exposure values indexed to properties within the neighborhood. The noise exposure values quantify cumulative noise exposures of the properties due to historical flight paths of the UAVs over the neighborhood.