公开(公告)号：US20210034076A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-04

申请号：US16524901

申请日：2019-07-29

Applicant: Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company

Inventor： Jeffery SAUNDERS ,  John F. LANGFORD ,  Jason T. JEWELL

IPC: G05D1/10 ,  G08G5/04 ,  G08G5/00

Abstract: In an example, a method of generating flight paths for navigating an aircraft is provided. The method includes hovering the aircraft at a predetermined hover point. The predetermined hover point corresponds to a first takeoff waypoint of a first trajectory of the aircraft. The method includes scanning at least a portion of a first flight path of the first trajectory. The method includes determining that an obstacle obstructs the first flight path of the first trajectory. The first flight path begins at the first takeoff waypoint. The method includes determining a second takeoff waypoint. Determining the second takeoff waypoint includes assigning the first flight path to begin at the second takeoff waypoint. The method includes changing the first flight path of the first trajectory in accordance with the second takeoff waypoint, thereby forming a second flight path of a second trajectory. The method includes causing the aircraft to follow the second flight path of the second trajectory from the second takeoff waypoint.

公开(公告)号：US20210008766A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-14

申请号：US16504720

申请日：2019-07-08

Applicant: The Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company

Inventor： Chathuranga Kuruppuarachchige ,  Edward Albert Wen ,  Josiah Hughes ,  Michelle Mahon

IPC: B29C35/02 ,  B29C70/54 ,  B29C70/30 ,  B64F5/10

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for curing a composite part. The method includes the steps of: disposing a heat blanket at a composite material; applying, with a controller, power to heaters distributed across multiple cells of a heat blanket to heat the composite material at the heat blanket; monitoring, with the controller, a temperature of the composite material at each of the multiple cells via thermocouples distributed across the multiple cells; and individually adjusting, with the controller, an amount of power applied to the heaters, for each of the multiple cells, in response to the monitored temperature and a target temperature.