Mitigating noise exposure to unmanned aerial vehicles

US10977951B2 · 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: Nov 18, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 13, 2021
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2039

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: accessing a noise exposure map stored in a database and generating a new flight path over the neighborhood for a first UAV of the UAVs based at least in part on the noise exposure map. The noise exposure map includes noise exposure values indexed to locations within the neighborhood. Each of the noise exposure values quantifies a cumulative noise exposure of a corresponding one of the locations due at least in part to historical flight paths of the UAVs over the neighborhood.