A drone positioning system includes a processor subsystem and memory comprising instructions, which when executed by the processor subsystem, cause the processor subsystem to perform the operations comprising: transmitting, from an operation drone, a request message to a plurality of companion drones; receiving a response message from each of the plurality of companion drones, each response message including: a first timestamp indicating when the response message was sent from the corresponding companion drone and a first geoposition of the corresponding companion drone; calculating a first distance to each of the plurality of companion drones using the first timestamps of respective response messages from each of the plurality of companion drones; calculating an estimated geoposition of the operation drone from the respective first distances and the respective first geopositions of the companion drones; and assisting navigation of the operation drone using the estimated geoposition.
COMPANION DRONE TO ASSIST LOCATION DETERMINATION
2019-05-09
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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