Evaluating line-of-sight measurements

    公开(公告)号:US10760919B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US16683045

    申请日:2019-11-13

    发明人: Ryan Lamoreaux

    摘要: For evaluating navigation information based on line-of-sight measurements, a method measures a line-of-sight measurement with an imager. The method further calculates an information metric based on the line-of-sight measurement. The information metric is a function of imager pixel measurement noise and a relative position vector for an imager frame aligned with a focal plane frame for the imager. The method evaluates navigation information using the information metric.

    Grating magneto optical trap
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10278275B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-30

    申请号:US15431492

    申请日:2017-02-13

    发明人: Eric Imhof

    摘要: A two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D GMOT) that is configured to produce a cold-atom beam exiting the 2D GMOT is disclosed. In embodiments, the 2D GMOT is configured to feed a three-dimensional GMOT with the cold atom beam. In embodiments, the 2D GMOT includes an input light beam having its direction along a first axis, its width along a second axis, normal to the first axis, and a substantially flat input light beam intensity profile. 2D GMOT may further includes a quadrupole magnetic field with its magnitude being zero along a third axis that is centered at the center of the input light beam's width. The 2D GMOT may also include a diffraction-grating surface positioned normal to the first axis, composed of closely adjacent parallel grooves spread across the width and run parallel to the third axis.

    Split field spectral imager
    4.
    发明授权
    Split field spectral imager 有权
    分割场光谱成像仪

    公开(公告)号:US09513166B2

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-06

    申请号:US14333150

    申请日:2014-07-16

    IPC分类号: G01J3/45 G01J3/28 G01J3/26

    CPC分类号: G01J3/2823 G01J3/26

    摘要: An apparatus for spectroscopic Doppler imaging comprises collection and focusing optics, a field splitter configured to form a composite image from multiple fields of view, and a Fabry-Perot etalon configured to spatially modulate the incoming light in order to analyze the spectral content of the light from spatially resolved regions of a scene. Methods for Doppler imaging of a scene comprise split-field imagery and scene scanning techniques to create a spatially resolved spectral profile spectra of a scene, useful for measuring and profiling wind vectors and temperatures within the scene.

    摘要翻译: 用于光谱多普勒成像的装置包括收集和聚焦光学元件,配置成从多个视场形成合成图像的场分离器,以及配置为空间调制入射光的法布里 - 珀罗标准具,以便分析光的光谱含量 来自场景的空间分辨区域。 用于场景的多普勒成像的方法包括分割场图像和场景扫描技术,以创建场景的空间解析的谱图谱,其用于测量和分析场景内的风矢量和温度。

    Devices, systems, and methods for dispersive energy imaging
    5.
    发明授权
    Devices, systems, and methods for dispersive energy imaging 有权
    用于分散能量成像的装置,系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08809771B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-19

    申请号:US13107609

    申请日:2011-05-13

    申请人: Erik Syrstad

    发明人: Erik Syrstad

    IPC分类号: H01J49/00 H01J40/14

    CPC分类号: H01J49/22 H01J49/486

    摘要: Devices, systems, and methods for dispersive energy imaging are disclosed. The full three-dimensional velocity distribution function of a flowing particle stream may be measured and properties of the particle stream characterized. In some devices, an aperture system controls the entry of a stream of particles into the sensor where an electrostatic deflector separates the stream of particles into different species, and a detector system senses the separated species.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于分散能量成像的装置,系统和方法。 可以测量流动颗粒流的完整三维速度分布函数,并表征粒子流的性质。 在一些装置中,孔径系统控制颗粒物流进入传感器,其中静电偏转器将颗粒流分离成不同的物种,并且检测器系统感测分离的物种。

    Method and system for non-mechanical rapid tuning of an optical parametric oscillator

    公开(公告)号:US08717667B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-06

    申请号:US13160737

    申请日:2011-06-15

    IPC分类号: G02F1/39 G01N21/39 H01S3/10

    摘要: An OPO is disclosed capable of rapid frequency tuning by non-mechanical means. The OPO includes a resonant cavity including one or more non-linear crystals in an optical path thereof. A pump laser pulse is transmitted into the resonant cavity simultaneously with a seed beam having a desired wavelength. The output beam from the resonant cavity has the same center wavelength as the seed beam. The wavelength of the seed beam may be modulated at a frequency larger than the pulse rate of the pump laser or larger than the inverse of the pulse duration. The OPO disclosed may be used to perform DIAL analysis wherein intra-pulse modulation of an output beam is used to obtain measurements of absorption at multiple frequencies for each pulse of a pump beam.

    Systems and Methods For Sensing Occupancy
    7.
    发明申请
    Systems and Methods For Sensing Occupancy 有权
    用于感应占用的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20140093130A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-04-03

    申请号:US14124998

    申请日:2012-06-08

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    摘要: A computer implemented method for sensing occupancy of a workspace includes creating a difference image that represents luminance differences of pixels in past and current images of the workspace resulting from motion in the workspace, determining motion occurring in regions of the workspace based on the difference image, and altering a workspace environment based at least in part on the determined motion. The method also includes determining which pixels in the difference image represent persistent motion that can be ignored and determining which pixels representing motion in the difference image are invalid because the pixels are isolated from other pixels representing motion.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于感测工作空间的占用的计算机实现的方法包括创建表示由工作空间中的运动产生的工作空间的过去和当前图像中的像素的亮度差的差分图像,基于差分图像确定在工作区域中发生的运动, 以及至少部分地基于所确定的运动来改变工作空间环境。 该方法还包括确定差异图像中的哪些像素表示可忽略的持续运动,并且由于像素与表示运动的其他像素隔离,并且确定表示差分图像中的运动的哪些像素是无效的。

    Mini-cell, on-orbit, temperature re-calibration apparatus and method
    8.
    发明授权
    Mini-cell, on-orbit, temperature re-calibration apparatus and method 有权
    微型电池,轨道上,温度重新校准装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08657487B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-25

    申请号:US12482622

    申请日:2009-06-11

    IPC分类号: G01K15/00 G12B13/00

    CPC分类号: G01K15/002 G01J5/522

    摘要: A method for on-orbit calibration of the temperature sensors of a simulated blackbody is disclosed. The method may include selecting a simulated blackbody traveling in a micro-gravity environment and comprising a sensor, a container positioned proximate the senor and containing a material, and a heat transfer device positioned proximate the at least one container. The heat transfer device may transition the material through a phase change. The temperature sensor may monitor the temperature of the material during the phase change. A correction may be calculated to correct any disparity between the temperature reported by the temperature sensor during the phase change and the known plateau temperature corresponding to that phase change. The correction may be applied to subsequent temperature readings obtained using the temperature sensor.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于模拟黑体的温度传感器的轨道校准的方法。 该方法可以包括选择在微重力环境中行进的模拟黑体,并且包括传感器,靠近传感器定位并容纳材料的容器以及靠近所述至少一个容器定位的传热装置。 传热装置可以使材料通过相变。 温度传感器可以在相变期间监测材料的温度。 可以计算校正以校正在相变期间由温度传感器报告的温度与对应于该相变的已知平台温度之间的任何差异。 校正可以应用于使用温度传感器获得的后续温度读数。

    Systems and Methods for Conveying Energy
    9.
    发明申请
    Systems and Methods for Conveying Energy 审中-公开
    输送能量的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20130221206A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-08-29

    申请号:US13767112

    申请日:2013-02-14

    IPC分类号: G01J1/00

    摘要: Disclosed herein are various energy conveyance systems that are able to convey energy along different optical paths to non-overlapping regions of a sensor. A system can include an objective optics system that collects and focuses energy, and can further include steering optics that are configured to divert an optical path of at least a portion of the energy that is collected via the objective optics system. The steering optics may cause different portions of energy collected via the objective optics system to be delivered as focused field images to non-overlapping or similar sections of a sensor.

    摘要翻译: 这里公开了能够沿着不同光路将能量传送到传感器的非重叠区域的各种能量传送系统。 系统可以包括收集和聚焦能量的物镜光学系统,并且还可以包括被配置为转移通过物镜光学系统收集的能量的至少一部分的光路的转向光学器件。 转向光学元件可能导致经由物镜光学系统收集的能量的不同部分作为聚焦场图像传送到传感器的非重叠或相似部分。

    Thermal expansion compensation method and system
    10.
    发明授权
    Thermal expansion compensation method and system 有权
    热膨胀补偿方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US08292537B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-23

    申请号:US12815975

    申请日:2010-06-15

    申请人: Trent Newswander

    发明人: Trent Newswander

    IPC分类号: C04B37/02

    摘要: A method and system that compensates for thermal induced stresses in structures composed of different materials fastened together. The system utilizes three compensation mounts made from a material with a coefficient of thermal expansion that is between that of the two materials being fastened together. These mounts can be linear or, for a thinner structure, the mounts are “C” shaped. The size of the “C” mounts and fastening locations are calculated based on the coefficient of thermal expansion for the two materials being fastened together and the “C” mount material. The geometry of the “C” mounts allows for fastening the two planar surfaces without introducing a large thickness increase to the structure. This system allows for materials to be fastened together, and when placed in an environment with temperature fluctuations, the system experiences zero, minimal or insignificant amounts of thermal induced stress.

    摘要翻译: 补偿由不同材料紧固在一起构成的结构中的热应力的方法和系统。 该系统利用由两个材料紧固在一起的热膨胀系数材料制成的三个补偿安装座。 这些安装件可以是线性的,或者为了更薄的结构,安装件是C形的。 基于被紧固在一起的两种材料的热膨胀系数和C安装材料来计算C安装座和紧固位置的尺寸。 C安装座的几何形状允许紧固两个平面表面,而不会向结构引入较大的厚度增加。 该系统允许将材料紧固在一起,并且当放置在具有温度波动的环境中时,系统经历零,最小或不显着的热诱导应力量。