Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Unmanned aircraft turn and approach system
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Application No.: US16051481Application Date: 2018-07-31
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Publication No.: US10768624B2Publication Date: 2020-09-08
- Inventor: William J. Nicoloff , Eric M. Sornborger , Lars B. Cremean
- Applicant: AeroVironment, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Simi Valley
- Assignee: AeroVironment Inc.
- Current Assignee: AeroVironment Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Simi Valley
- Agency: The Law Office of John A. Griecci
- Agent Eric J. Aagaard, Esq.
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; F41G7/30 ; B64C9/00 ; B64C39/02 ; B64D47/08 ; F41G7/22

Abstract:
An aircraft including a wing system, a plurality of control surfaces, a camera mounted on a camera pod, and a control system. The camera pod is configured to vary the orientation of the camera field of view only in yaw, relative to the aircraft, between a directly forward-looking orientation and a side-looking orientation. The control system controls the control surfaces such that they induce a significant aircraft yaw causing an identified target to be within the field of view of the camera with the camera in the directly forward-looking orientation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180356822A1 UNMANNED AIRCRAFT TURN AND APPROACH SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2018-12-13
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