In some embodiments, systems and methods provide a retail delivery unmanned aerial vehicle, comprising: a frame; a plurality of motors cooperated with the frame; a plurality of propellers each secured with one of the motors; a vehicle control circuit communicatively coupled with the motors and configured to control the motors in controlling the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle; and an array of a plurality of tactile sensor systems each comprising: an extended feeler antenna with a distal end proximate one of the propellers and configured to flex in response to a threshold pressure from contact with an external object; and a contact sensor configured to detect contact by the extended feeler antenna with the external object; wherein the extended feeler antennae are spaced around the frame and define at least outer most lateral perimeter points laterally spaced about the unmanned aerial vehicle.
UNMANNED VEHICLE ANTENNAE CONTACT SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS
2019-10-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
UNMANNED VEHICLE ANTENNAE CONTACT SENSOR SYSTEMS AND METHODS
European Patent Office | 2019
|Emerald Group Publishing | 1999