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公开(公告)号:US11650033B2
公开(公告)日:2023-05-16
申请号:US17111587
申请日:2020-12-04
Inventor: Jason H. Batchelder , Matthew F. Chrobak , Ryan Dippel
IPC: F42B10/64
CPC classification number: F42B10/64
Abstract: The system and method of a steering a moving object using a control plate-based control actuation system on the moving object. The control plate-based control actuation system having a control plate with at least four fin linkages for connecting at least four fins to the control plate; and three actuators configured to move the control plate to produce movement in two or more of the at least four fins. The system produces roll, pitch, and yaw moments for the moving object using three actuators acting on the control plate and thus moving two or more of the at least four fins all with no loss of performance as compared to systems with four actuators.
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公开(公告)号:US11621925B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-04
申请号:US16539661
申请日:2019-08-13
Inventor: Matthew J. Sherman , Mark D. Chauvette , Matthew Rasa , Nicholas C. Sherman
IPC: H04L47/72 , H04L41/5003 , H04L7/00 , H04L47/56 , H04W48/16 , H04W72/0446
Abstract: An asynchronous medium access control layer scheduler increases efficiency for directional mesh networks by removing extra overhead in the time slots. The efficiency is increased by dividing time slots into sub-slots to allow for a receiving node to be offset by at least one sub-slot from the transmitting node. This enables the scheduler to more efficiently schedule operations for the nodes so that nodes can be performing other functions rather than waiting to receive a transmission or waiting after transmitting a transmission. The sub-slots may be sized to approximate the transmission propagation time or time of flight delay.
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公开(公告)号:US11619473B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-04
申请号:US17145455
申请日:2021-01-11
Inventor: Curtis B. Rath
Abstract: The system and method of mixing pitch and roll commands from a flight control computer to produce fin deflections applied to as few as two fins to simultaneously produce both a rolling moment and a pitching moment. The system may be mechanical or digital where actuators can be linear or rotary, digital or analog. Deflections of the fins are generated which produce pitch and roll moments where addition of pitch and roll commands determines deflection commands to be sent to a first fin and subtraction of pitch and roll commands determines deflection commands to be sent to a second fin.
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公开(公告)号:US11597485B2
公开(公告)日:2023-03-07
申请号:US17108552
申请日:2020-12-01
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for providing retractable control fins on an underwater vehicle. The retractable control fins can be extended away from a main hull portion of the underwater vehicle and retracted inwards to a stowage region within the hull portion to protect the fins from damage and reduce an overall outer diameter (e.g., in the case of a cylindrical body) of the underwater vehicle. In some embodiments, the control fins are folded inwards to reduce the vehicle diameter. In other embodiments, the control fins are pulled inwards using a rotating structure designed to slide the control fins through an opening and into an inner portion of the hull to reduce the vehicle diameter. The retraction of the fins through the various retraction mechanisms reduces the envelope diameter of the underwater vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US11558810B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-17
申请号:US17142800
申请日:2021-01-06
Inventor: Joshua W. Robinson , Joseph M. Carmack , Scott A Kuzdeba , James M. Stankowicz, Jr.
Abstract: A system whereby individual RF emitter devices are distinguished in real-world environments through deep-learning comprising an RF receiver for receiving RF signals from a plurality of individual devices; a preprocessor configured to produce complex-valued In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) IQ signal sample representations; a two-stage Augmented Dilated Causal Convolution (ADCC) network comprising a stack of dilated causal convolution layers and traditional convolutional layers configured to process I and Q components of the complex IQ samples; transfer learning comprising a classifier and a cluster embedding dense layer; unsupervised clustering whereby the RF signals are grouped according to a device that transmitted the RF signal; and an output identifying the individual RF emitter device whereby the individual RF emitter device is distinguished in the real-world environment.
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公开(公告)号:US11558056B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-17
申请号:US16888035
申请日:2020-05-29
Inventor: Jason H. Branch , Karl P. Herb , Danny L. Plemons
IPC: H03K19/173 , B64D7/00 , F41H11/02 , H03F3/04
Abstract: A sequencer for use with a countermeasure defense system includes an input signal indicative of firing an expendable, a circuit card that receives the input signal indicative of firing the expendable and an output analog signal from the circuit card that fires the expendable. The parameters of the output analog signal correspond to parameters of a digital waveform.
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公开(公告)号:US20220407524A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17351529
申请日:2021-06-18
Inventor: Shailendra Srinivas , Joseph D. Cali , Steven E. Turner
IPC: H03L7/093
Abstract: A direct digital synthesizer (DDS) circuit. The circuit includes a first input to receive a first fixed frequency clock signal having a first frequency, a second input to receive a second fixed frequency clock signal having a second frequency lower than the first frequency, and an output to provide an output frequency that is based at least in part on a frequency control word (FCW). The DDS circuit may include a frequency correction circuit having a first input to receive the first clock signal, a second input to receive the second clock signal, and a third input to receive the FCW, and an output to provide a frequency error of the first clock signal, the frequency error determined using the second clock signal and FCW. Alternatively, or in addition to, the DDS circuit may include an all-digital phase lock loop to correct for frequency wander of the first clock signal.
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公开(公告)号:US20220397360A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-15
申请号:US17345551
申请日:2021-06-11
Inventor: Danny L. Plemons , Mark J. Dube , Daniel M. Gilbert
Abstract: Various systems and methods for leveraging legacy countermeasure dispensing systems (CMDSs). The legacy CMDSs are leveraged through the expansion of breechplates and magazines in a CMDS by expanding the amount of expendables carried by a CMDS while still maintaining the legacy sequencer and dispenser in a legacy military platform, such as an aircraft. In addition, various circuitry systems are included in a circuit card of the breechplate for duplicating and/or expanding the firing lines provided in a legacy CMDS.
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公开(公告)号:US11521063B1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-06
申请号:US16717361
申请日:2019-12-17
Inventor: Michael J Powers , Peter Simonson
Abstract: A system and method for reducing laser communication terminal pointing uncertainty. The method trains an artificial neural network (ANN) with input data characterizing terminal pointing error and dependent parameters. The method inputs the trained ANN a set of data of these dependent parameters with unknown pointing error. The method uses the ANN output to apply corrections to the terminal pointing solution to reduce pointing uncertainty. The method can condition the ANN generated corrections to avoid cases where application of the ANN correction could exceed the original pointing uncertainty. This conditioning includes computing the Euclidean distance between current ANN input parameter values and values in the ANN training dataset, and bounding the allowed magnitude of the ANN pointing correction. The method can train the ANN incrementally during terminal operation for real-time updates or train the ANN offline with gathered data and implement the trained ANN on the terminal for subsequent links.
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公开(公告)号:US20220385261A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-01
申请号:US17333163
申请日:2021-05-28
Inventor: Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: Techniques are provided for a broadband microwave/millimeter-wave balanced-to-unbalanced transformer (balun). A balun implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes a first impedance matching network configured to reduce insertion and return losses of a single-ended signal at a first port of the balun. The balun also includes a first planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first impedance matching network and configured to transform the single-ended signal into a differential signal. The balun further includes a second planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first bifilar coupled transmission line and configured to compensate for amplitude and phase imbalance induced on the differential signal by the first bifilar coupled transmission line. The balun further includes a second impedance matching network coupled to both planar bifilar coupled transmission lines and configured to reduce insertion and return losses of the differential signal at second and third ports of the balun.
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