Customized UAV Delivery Paths for Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of drones for package delivery faces challenges as recipients may not want drones to access certain areas of their property, necessitating customized delivery paths that respect privacy and preferences.
Innovation Solution
A system and method allowing recipients to create and communicate customized flight paths across their property, incorporating preferences such as delivery locations, altitudes, speeds, and conditions like weather and time, which are stored and used by drones for package delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If drones are used for package delivery, then delivery efficiency is improved, but recipients may not want drones to access certain areas of their property
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the delivery process into two independent components: (1) the drone's flight path and delivery execution, and (2) the recipient's property access preferences. By segmenting these functions, the system can optimize delivery efficiency through automated drone navigation while separately managing property access constraints through recipient-defined preferences, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity and adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements preliminary action by having recipients pre-define their property access preferences and restricted areas before drone delivery occurs. This advance configuration allows the drone to automatically respect recipient boundaries without real-time intervention, maintaining both high delivery efficiency and recipient control over property access
2Adaptability or versatility
If customized flight paths are implemented, then recipient preferences are respected, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses copying by creating a digital representation (map data) of the recipient's property boundaries and preferred delivery locations. Instead of complex real-time negotiations or manual path planning, the system stores and references this copied spatial information to automatically determine compliant flight paths, thereby achieving customized delivery capability while minimizing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies dynamics by making the flight path adaptable and variable based on recipient preferences rather than using fixed, predetermined routes. The path can dynamically adjust to respect different property boundaries, delivery locations, and conditions while following a standardized process framework, thus achieving customization without proportionally increasing complexity
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AI summary
Methods, systems and computer program products for creating customized delivery paths for unmanned aerial vehicle deliveries are provided. Aspects include receiving, from a delivery recipient, one or more delivery locations for a delivery of a package and receiving, from the delivery recipient, a flight plan associated with each of the one or more delivery locations, wherein at least one of the flight plans include an authorized path across a private property. Aspects also include receiving, from the delivery recipient, a set of delivery recipient preferences that are used to determine which of the one or more delivery locations should be used to deliver the package and storing, by a processor in a computer readable medium, the set of delivery recipient preferences for use in determining a delivery location for a package to the delivery recipient.