Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Cauvin Polycarpe

Sean Scott Carlson

Igor Cherepinsky

George Nicholas Loussides

Navid Dadkhah Tehrani

Joshua M Leland

Garrett Pitcher

Ronald G Mccall

Sean S Carlson

Load volume predication for slung loads of aerial vehicles are disclosed. A system can identify parameters of a load. The system can determine a volume occupied by a superposition of locations of the cone. The system can receive from sensors or models, characteristics of an environment associated with the aerial vehicle or the load. The system can detect an obstacle in the environment. The system can take a navigational action in response to detecting the obstacle.

Helicopter obstacle avoidance with slung load

A method of determining cable angle includes acquiring image data of a cable and a load coupled to a rotorcraft using three-dimensional (3D) spatial perception system, constructing an image of the cable and load using the image data, and determining the angle of the cable relative to the external load at an interface of the cable and external load based on the image.

Systems and methods for controlling rotorcraft external loads

An apparatus is described comprising at least one processor; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: organize items of raw data received from at least one sensor of a vehicle as a first data structure, organize classified data objects as a second data structure, and link at least one item of the first data structure to at least one object of the second data structure.

Method for three dimensional perception processing and classification

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