US 12726260 B2 / Sep 1, 2026

Dynamic channel selection for unmanned aerial vehicles

Technology is disclosed herein for dynamically selecting a communication channel for communication between an unmanned aerial vehicle and an access point. In an implementation, an unmanned aerial vehicle selects a current channel for communicating with an access point by performing a scan of the communication channels and, for each channel, generating a score based on performance metrics acquired during the scan. The communication channels are sorted into an ordered list according to the scores of the communication channels. The vehicle selects the first channel of the ordered list to be the current channel and periodically evaluates the channel performance against a performance threshold. Upon determining that the performance of the current channel is below the performance threshold, the vehicle evaluates the second channel from the ordered list.