Aeronautics and astronautics – Missile stabilization or trajectory control – Remote control
Patent
1991-08-01
1996-08-13
Jordan, Charles T.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Missile stabilization or trajectory control
Remote control
F41G 730
Patent
active
055448437
ABSTRACT:
A space-based command guidance controller and controlled deliverable traveling at speeds of about Mach five are cooperative to cause the deliverable to follow a coherent designator beam controlled by the space-based command guidance controller to be delivered to a target location, eventually designated by the beam along an over-the-horizon trajectory, and into a target thereat with surgical-like precision. The command guidance controller includes an optical tracker and coherent designator laser assembly and an inertially-stabilized tracker that are cooperative to produce a command guidance signal representative of that controlled deliverable maneuver that enables the controlled deliverable, upon the execution thereof, to conform its trajectory to the intended trajectory, and eventually, to impact the intended target. The controlled deliverable includes an autopilot that executes the maneuver represented by the command guidance signal in order to bring the controlled deliverable into local conformance to the intended trajectory. The controlled deliverable includes an optical roll sensor having a negligible scale-factor-error. The intended target location may include a static and/or a dynamic target object.
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Jordan Charles T.
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc.
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