Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Automatic route guidance vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-28
2011-06-28
Jeanglaud, Gertrude Arthur (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Automatic route guidance vehicle
C701S014000, C701S206000, C342S036000, C340S948000, C340S961000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07970507
ABSTRACT:
This invention provides a system and method for autonomously tracking a moving target from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a variety of airframe and sensor payload capabilities so that the target remains within the vehicle's sensor field of view regardless of the specific target motion patterns. The invention uses information about target location, UAV platform type and states, sensor payload capability, and ratio of target-to-UAV speeds to select from a suite of sub-algorithms, each of which generates desired platform positions (in form of waypoints) and/or sensor orientation commands to keep the target in view.
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Fregene Kingsley O C
Lommel Peter
Arthur Jeanglaud Gertrude
Fogg & Powers LLC
Honeywell International , Inc.
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