This invention describes a drone equipped with cameras and radar that constantly watches the airspace around it. If it spots an obstacle, it figures out what the obstacle is, then adjusts its flight path if necessary. It also tells the main air traffic control system about the obstruction, using either radar to detect and cameras to identify, or cameras for both detection and identification.
Why it matters: Filed before widespread adoption of advanced on-board AI for real-time object detection and classification from sensor data. Modern processing capabilities and mature machine learning models make the complex analysis of radar and camera feeds for dynamic obstruction identification significantly more feasible and robust today.
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