US 12559096 B2 / Feb 24, 2026

Collision prediction and prevention for uncrewed vehicles

Methods and systems are described herein for predicting collisions between uncrewed vehicles and preventing those collisions. A collision prevention system may generate collision spheroids for a multitude of uncrewed vehicles. Those collision spheroids may represent a plurality of three-dimensional points around each uncrewed vehicle. When the collision prevention system determines that collision spheroids corresponding to two uncrewed vehicles intersect, the collision prevention system may determine that a collision is imminent and may attempt to prevent the collision by causing one or both uncrewed vehicles to change velocity.

Publication details

Recorded assignee
AeroVironment, Inc.
Publication number
US 12559096 B2
Publication type
Utility patent grant
Publication date
Feb 24, 2026
Filing date
Jun 28, 2024
CPC classes
B60W30/09, B60W30/095, G08G5/21, G08G5/25, G08G5/26, G08G5/53, G08G5/55, G08G5/56, G08G5/57, G08G5/723, G08G5/727, G08G5/80, B60W2520/12, B60W2530/10, B60W2554/402, B60W2720/10
Inventors
Bowman; William S., Moffett; Mark B., Hedman; Daniel R., Bowman; Michael E., Korte; Bryce, Summer; Matthew D.

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