A secure, personalized, and locatable container for residential, commercial, industrial, and military use that is capable of interfacing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) for the purpose of sending and receiving mail and parcels. The container is stationary when installed but can be uninstalled and easily transportable to an alternate location for re-installation. The present invention of the container and proprietary communications protocol provides the benefit of touchless, secure, and verifiable parcel service anywhere in the world.

Information of an instrument point of a surveying apparatus is more simply and easily acquired. Positioning data that is obtained by a first surveying apparatus in which exterior orientation parameters are known, and positioning data that is obtained by a second surveying apparatus in which exterior orientation parameters are unknown, are received. The first surveying apparatus and the second surveying apparatus are configured to obtain positioning data by measuring multiple positions of a UAV that is flying. A piece of positioning data is acquired from the positioning data of the UAV obtained by the first surveying apparatus and from the positioning data of the UAV obtained by the second surveying apparatus. These pieces of positioning data are in a correspondence relationship. The position of the second surveying apparatus is calculated based on the pieces of positioning data that are in the correspondence relationship, by a method of resection.

Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.

An unmanned aerial vehicle-based data collection and distribution system includes a source of animal data that can be transmitted electronically. The source of animal data includes at least one sensor. The animal data is collected from at least one target individual. The system also includes an unmanned aerial vehicle that receives the animal data from the source of animal data as a first set of received animal data and a home station that receives the first set of received animal data. Characteristically, the unmanned aerial vehicle includes a transceiver operable to receive signals from the source of animal data and to send control signals to the source of animal data.

The moving body of the present invention is a moving body that has a weight of 300 kg or less and is activated by a user to move, the moving body comprising: a movement mechanism for moving; a communication unit for performing communication; a control unit that controls the moving mechanism so that the moving body moves when communication between the communication unit and an external communication device is not possible; and an attachment for fixing, wherein the control unit controls the moving mechanism so that the moving body moves when fixation by the attachment is released, and wherein the communication unit transmits user-related information, which is information related to the user, to the external communication device when the communication between the communication unit and the external communication device is possible.

Disclosed are a method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle, a method for controlling outbound and return trips of an unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned aerial vehicle, a medium, and a control system. The method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle includes: obtaining, in a process of flying along a target course sent by a first ground station, first positioning auxiliary information sent by the first ground station; adjusting a flight attitude according to the first positioning auxiliary information, to fly along the target course; in a case of determining that a ground station switching condition of the second ground station is satisfied, obtaining the second positioning auxiliary information sent by the second ground station; and adjusting the flight attitude according to the second positioning auxiliary information, to fly along the target course to reach the second location point.

The UAV 1a includes a dust sensor 16 and a dust-preventing function 17 and performs a processing for a different UAV 1b not provided with a dust-preventing function on the basis of a dust amount detected by the dust sensor 16 during a flight of the UAV 1a.

A configuration is achieved in which collision risk information is received from a mobile device such as a drone, a modified path with a low collision risk is generated, and movement according to the modified path is performed. Existence of a second mobile device or pedestrian exposed to a collision risk is checked on the basis of collision risk information received from the mobile device such as a drone, and in a case where the existence of the second mobile device or pedestrian exposed to the collision risk is confirmed, collision risk information received from a first mobile device or modified safe circuit information is transmitted to the second mobile device exposed to the collision risk, or transmitted to a user terminal held by the pedestrian exposed to the collision risk. The collision risk information received from the mobile device such as a drone is risk information with which a collision risk corresponding to a three-dimensional spatial position can be analyzed.

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a drone service retrieving network state information describing a network state of at least a portion of a communication network, determining an impact of the network state on operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), determining operational information for the UAV, and providing the operational information to the UAV. Other embodiments are disclosed.

A system for an agricultural operation includes a first vehicle equipped with an imaging sensor configured to capture image data associated within a field. A computing system is communicatively coupled with the imaging sensor. The computing system is configured to receive the image data associated with the field, identify one or more objects within the image data as a target, identify one or more objects within the image data as a landmark, determine a location of the target relative to the landmark, and generate a control command for a second vehicle. The control command includes the location of the target relative to the landmark within the field.