Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Three-dimensional manipulation of teams of quadrotors
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Application No.: US14397761Application Date: 2013-04-30
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Publication No.: US09599993B2Publication Date: 2017-03-21
- Inventor: Vijay Kumar , Aleksandr Kushleyev , Daniel Mellinger
- Applicant: The Trustees of The University of Pennsylvania
- Applicant Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- Current Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Philadelphia
- Agency: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P.A.
- International Application: PCT/US2013/038769 WO 20130430
- International Announcement: WO2014/018147 WO 20140130
- Main IPC: G01C23/00
- IPC: G01C23/00 ; G05D1/10 ; B64C39/02 ; G08G5/04

Abstract:
A system and method is described for controlling flight trajectories of at least two flying vehicles towards goal positions. The system includes at least two flying vehicles with onboard inertial measurement units for determining and updating orientation, angular velocities, position and linear velocities of the at least two flying vehicles, a motion capture system to detect current position and velocity of each of the at least two flying vehicles, and a base controller in communication with the motion capture system and in communication with the plurality of flying vehicles. The base controller calculates for each of the flying vehicles, at predetermined intervals of time, optimum trajectory paths using piece-wise smooth polynomial functions, applying weighting factors, and enforcing overlap constraints.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150105946A1 THREE-DIMENSIONAL MANIPULATION OF TEAMS OF QUADROTORS Public/Granted day:2015-04-16
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