Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unmanned aerial vehicle angular reorientation
- Patent Title (中): 无人机角度重新定向
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Application No.: US14016602Application Date: 2013-09-03
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Publication No.: US09211947B2Publication Date: 2015-12-15
- Inventor: Carlos Miralles
- Applicant: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Simi Valley
- Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee: AEROVIRONMENT, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Simi Valley
- Agency: Brooks Acordia IP Law, P.C.
- Agent Eric Aagaard
- Main IPC: G01C23/00
- IPC: G01C23/00 ; G05D1/00 ; G05D3/00 ; G06F7/00 ; G06F17/00 ; B64C13/16 ; G05D1/12 ; F41G7/22

Abstract:
A system comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) having wing elements and tail elements configured to roll to angularly orient the UAV by rolling so as to align a longitudinal plane of the UAV, in its late terminal phase, with a target. A method of UAV body re-orientation comprising: (a) determining by a processor a boresight angle error correction value bases on distance between a target point and a boresight point of a body-fixed frame; and (b) effecting a UAV maneuver comprising an angular role rate component translating the target point to a re-oriented target point in the body-fixed frame, to maintain the offset angle via the offset angle correction value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140172200A1 UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE ANGULAR REORIENTATION Public/Granted day:2014-06-19
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