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Amazon Drones Will Never be Lost Again!

Amazon navigation beacon drone
Amazon's Concept Drone

Amazon’s latest patent shows that the company will be soon coming up with its latest innovation “an unconventional idea” for drones that will revolutionize the modern world of technology. Amazon's idea for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) is similar to the concept of maple seeds! Basically, this concept drone (or UAV) is designed to drop small devices (sensors) which will work as a navigation beacon for the UAV in any case of the system fails to track position and orientation of the drone.
Nowadays drones have been utilized for numerous kinds of purposes like remote sensing, aerial surveillance, recreational purposes, crisis response, commercial purposes (like quicker shipping and delivery of products), and several others. And at the same time, while operating in a low visibility area, operating too close to the ground, obstruction of the camera and sensor (GPS, stereo camera failure, etc.), or for any other technical reason the equipment may fail to achieve those successful outcomes that are desired.
For the successful execution of the task, concept UAV has been equipped with a backup system that will save the sensor data in case of sensor malfunction. The drone will disperse navigation beacons which will be detected by the device and help it land proximate to beacons. 

How will these drones work?

Amazon navigation beacon drone

  • If a fault preventing the device from precisely and accurately recognize its position, is detected in the drone’s system, the first set of navigation beacons are deployed from the drone.

  • Now beacons determine the attributes of the environment.

  • If there is any failure of navigation beacons or UAV is not able to resolve the location of beacons or to detect the lateral features of the environment, the second set of navigation beacons is deployed and then location is tracked.

  • The navigation beacons will output a signal (depending on the environment detected) that can be a visual, sound, or a radio signal. But the signal of each beacon might not be the same, they can have different wavelengths, as for the drone to identify the location of each beacon.

  • Then UAV may lead to land proximate to the detected surface and prevent the loss of sensor data.

A detailed description of techniques, apparatuses and components of concept drones is available in Amazon's patent. 

The concept of navigation beacon drone seems magnificent, but it is still unclear when Amazon will produce it.

Check out Amazon's another impressive innovation here.

Bibliography:

https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=10710719&IDKey=D69D1E6109AF&HomeUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D34%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526co1%3DAND%2526d%3DPTXT%2526s1%3Damazon.ASNM.%2526OS%3DAN%2Famazon%2526RS%3DAN%2Famazon

https://patents.justia.com/patent/10710719

https://www.protocol.com/amazon-patent-location-tracking-beacons



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