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公开(公告)号:US11279496B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-22
申请号:US16213679
申请日:2018-12-07
发明人: Igor Cherepinsky
摘要: A landing assembly and method of landing an aircraft. The landing assembly includes a landing gear, a charging circuit, a sampling circuit and a processor. The charging circuit applies a charge to the landing gear and the sampling circuit measures a discharge rate of the electrical charge from the landing gear. The processor determines a contact between the landing gear and a surface from the discharge rate.
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公开(公告)号:US10351230B2
公开(公告)日:2019-07-16
申请号:US15329118
申请日:2015-07-17
摘要: According to one aspect, a method of initial rotor state compensation for a rotorcraft includes determining a vehicle attitude of the rotorcraft prior to takeoff of the rotorcraft. A rotor state compensation is computed based on the vehicle attitude. A plurality of rotor servos is commanded to an initial rotor state based on a nominal rotor neutral position value in combination with the rotor state compensation to establish a predetermined takeoff trajectory of the rotorcraft.
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公开(公告)号:US10319244B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-11
申请号:US15502446
申请日:2015-09-14
摘要: A method for path planning for a plurality of vehicles in a mission space includes determining, with a processor, information indicative of a first local graph of a first vehicle; receiving, with the processor over a communication link, information indicative of a second local graph from a second vehicle; assembling, with the processor, information indicative of a global graph in response to the receiving of the second local graph; wherein the global graph includes information assembled from the first local graph and the second local graph; and wherein the global graph indicates connectivity of objectives for each vehicle of the plurality of vehicles in the mission space.
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公开(公告)号:US20190002122A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-03
申请号:US15519999
申请日:2015-10-16
发明人: Xuchu Ding , Jason C. Derenick , Brendan J. Englot , Igor Cherepinsky , Harshad S. Sane , Christopher Stathis
摘要: According to an aspect of the invention, a method of optimal safe landing area determination for an aircraft includes accessing a probabilistic safe landing area map that includes a plurality of probabilistic indicators of safe landing areas for the aircraft. A processing subsystem that includes one or more processing resources generates a list of candidate safe landing areas based on the probabilistic safe landing area map and one or more constraints. At least two of the candidate safe landing areas are provided to a path planner. The list of candidate safe landing areas is ranked based on results from the path planner indicating an estimated cost to reach each of the candidate safe landing areas. Based on the ranking, an indicator of an optimal safe landing area is output as a desired landing location for the aircraft.
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公开(公告)号:US10165265B2
公开(公告)日:2018-12-25
申请号:US15328782
申请日:2015-09-29
发明人: Jason C. Derenick , Xuchu Ding , Shuo Zhang , Igor Cherepinsky , Joshua M. Leland , Christopher Stathis
摘要: An online sensor calibration verification system includes at least one sensor configured to extract a calibration feature included in a field of view of the sensor. The online sensor calibration verification system further includes an electronic calibration verification module configured to determine a static reference feature model, and to verify a calibration of the at least one sensor based on a positional relationship between an extracted calibration feature and the static reference feature model.
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公开(公告)号:US09971354B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-15
申请号:US14734537
申请日:2015-06-09
发明人: Igor Cherepinsky , Harshad S. Sane
CPC分类号: G05D1/0808 , B64C2201/141 , G05D1/101 , G05D1/102 , G08G5/0052 , G08G5/0069 , G08G5/0078 , G08G5/0086
摘要: A system and method for controlling flight of an aircraft having a propeller, memory and a processor includes receiving one or more signals indicative of a flight plan comprising a plurality of waypoints; determining information indicative of a trajectory between the plurality of waypoints; determining information indicative of vehicle attitude commands; determining information indicative of flight control command signals; and determining an error between sensed vehicle states and the vehicle attitude commands.
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公开(公告)号:US09908614B2
公开(公告)日:2018-03-06
申请号:US14701032
申请日:2015-04-30
发明人: Igor Cherepinsky , Harshad S. Sane
CPC分类号: B64C13/04 , B64C13/503 , B64C27/56 , B64D11/0689
摘要: A system and method for controlling a trajectory of a vehicle includes a crew seat with first and second inceptors mounted to a portion of the crew seat; a processor with memory having instructions stored thereon that cause the system to: receive signals indicative of a trajectory for the vehicle; receive signals indicative of a deviation in a trajectory of the vehicle; and transmit signals for controlling a flight path of the vehicle. A second inceptor is configured for selecting one or more menus on a user display and being configured to interact with a fly-by-wire control system for transmitting signals indicative of movement of flight surface of the vehicle. The crew seat is configured to be located on the vehicle, in a control station remotely located from the vehicle, or in a second vehicle remotely located from the vehicle.
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公开(公告)号:US20180052472A1
公开(公告)日:2018-02-22
申请号:US15557963
申请日:2016-03-10
发明人: Igor Cherepinsky , Harshad S. Sane
摘要: A method of trajectory control for a vehicle includes obtaining an initial trajectory; presenting the initial trajectory as a current trajectory on an I/O device, the current trajectory presented overlaying terrain; initiating travel of the vehicle along the current trajectory; updating the current trajectory and the terrain in real time as the vehicle travels along the current trajectory; determining if change in the current trajectory is required; changing the current trajectory to an altered trajectory in response to determining change in the current trajectory is required; and presenting the altered trajectory on the I/O device, the altered trajectory presented overlaying the terrain.
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公开(公告)号:US20170307402A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-26
申请号:US15518406
申请日:2015-10-13
CPC分类号: G01C23/005 , G01C23/00 , G06T1/60 , G06T15/005 , G06T15/04 , G06T17/20 , G09G5/36
摘要: A method for augmenting a synthetic vision system of a vehicle includes receiving, with a processor, signals indicative of real-time sensor data of a terrain for the vehicle via one or more acquisition devices; creating, with the processor, a terrain mesh of the terrain in response to the receiving of the sensor data; correlating, with the processor, the terrain mesh with preloaded terrain data of the terrain; creating, with the processor, a multispectral image of the terrain in response to the correlating the terrain mesh with the preloaded data; and texturing, with the processor, the terrain mesh for display on a display device.
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公开(公告)号:US20170253320A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-07
申请号:US15442115
申请日:2017-02-24
摘要: A method of retrofitting a mechanically controlled aircraft with a fly-by-wire system includes removing a mechanical links between mechanical pilot inputs and actuators operable to drive flight surfaces. Electromechanical actuators are coupled between a plurality of vehicle management computers and the actuators. Each of the electromechanical actuators is operable to receive commands from the vehicle management computers and output a mechanical force to an input linkage of one of the actuators. Electromechanical pilot input modules are coupled to the mechanical pilot inputs. Each of the electromechanical pilot input modules is operable to convert a pilot-driven input force of an instance of the mechanical pilot inputs into an electronic signal indicative of the pilot-driven input force. At least one high performance computer is coupled to at least one of the vehicle management computers. The high performance computer executes one or more high level intelligence algorithms to selectively operate the aircraft autonomously.
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