Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optical state estimation and simulation environment for unmanned aerial vehicles
- Patent Title (中): 无人机的光学状态估计和仿真环境
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Application No.: US12796429Application Date: 2010-06-08
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Publication No.: US08942964B2Publication Date: 2015-01-27
- Inventor: George T. McWilliams, III , Kevin J. Alley , Christopher I. Mentzer
- Applicant: George T. McWilliams, III , Kevin J. Alley , Christopher I. Mentzer
- Applicant Address: US TX San Antonio
- Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
- Current Assignee: Southwest Research Institute
- Current Assignee Address: US TX San Antonio
- Agency: Grossman, Tucker et al
- Main IPC: G06G7/48
- IPC: G06G7/48 ; G09B9/08 ; G09B9/48

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for simulating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and simulating an environment in which the UAV may be flying. A plurality of visual sensors, e.g., cameras, positioned on the UAV, may be simulated. A UAV simulator is configured to simulate the UAV and a graphical simulator is configured to simulate the environment. The UAV simulator may be configured to: estimate pitch, roll and/or groundspeed based, at least in part, on outputs from the visual sensors, determine a position and/or an orientation of the simulated UAV in the simulated environment based, at least in part, on the estimate(s) and provide the position and/or orientation to the graphical simulator. The graphical simulator may be configured to display the simulated UAV at the position and/or orientation in the simulated environment and/or to display the simulated camera view(s).
Public/Granted literature
- US20110301925A1 Optical State Estimation And Simulation Environment For Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Public/Granted day:2011-12-08
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