Drone Navigation Routes Using Weather Manipulation Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Drone delivery systems face significant technical challenges in navigating through environments affected by manmade weather events such as cloud seeding, which can impact the safety and efficiency of cargo delivery.

Innovation Solution

A method for generating navigation routes based on weather manipulation data, which involves receiving data on manmade environmental factors, processing this data to determine their impact on drone flight, and generating routes that either avoid or strategically navigate through these factors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If drone operators navigate through areas with manmade weather events, then delivery speed is improved, but safety and cargo integrity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedelivery speedVSAvoidsafety and cargo integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system receives weather manipulation data in advance before the drone needs to navigate through the affected area. This preliminary knowledge allows the routing system to pre-calculate safe paths or determine optimal timing to avoid manmade weather events, thereby maintaining both speed and safety without requiring reactive maneuvers during flight.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If drone operators avoid areas with manmade weather events, then safety is improved, but delivery time and distance increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesafetyVSAvoiddelivery time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The routing system dynamically adjusts the navigation path based on real-time and historical weather manipulation data. Instead of static avoidance, the system can flexibly route drones through or around affected areas at optimal times, considering factors like weather event duration, drone speed, and cargo sensitivity to minimize delivery time while maintaining safety.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Measurement precision

If the navigation system incorporates weather manipulation data, then route accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveroute accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses weather manipulation data as an intermediary layer between the routing algorithm and the physical navigation. This data layer provides structured information about manmade weather events that feeds into the routing decision-making process, enabling accurate route planning without requiring the drone hardware itself to be overly complex - the complexity is managed at the data processing and decision level.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12234013B2Method and apparatus for determining navigation routes based on weather manipulation data

Publication Date: 2025.02.25 HERE GLOBAL BV

AI summary

A system, method, apparatus, computer readable medium, and user interface for generating a navigation route based on weather manipulation data comprising: receiving weather manipulation data for a geographic or a three-dimensional region associated with at least one candidate route, wherein the weather manipulation data indicates whether there is at least one manmade environmental factor present; and generating the navigation route based on the weather manipulation data for at least one candidate route.