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C/o Ernst & Young

Daniel Thomas Adams

Patrick Allen Lowe

Benjamin Scott Thompson

Frederic H Moll

Daniel T Wallace

Gunter D Niemeyer

Robert G Younge

Kenneth M Martin

David F Moore

Gregory J Stahler

Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman

Michael R Zinn

Yevgeniy Kozlenko

Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary

Zachary Albert West

Abraham Galton Bachrach

Adam Parker Bry

Donald Allen Severns

Eugene F Duval

David Charles Lundmark

Justin Michael Sadowski

Josiah Timothy VanderMey

Andrew G Butler

David A Kalinowski

Stephen Robert McClure

William Mitchell Scott

Alan L Yu

Christopher Tacklind

Aragon Burlingham

Jonathan Carver

Lance Reisman

Rick Feffer

Eugene Michael Berdichevsky

Federico Barbagli

David C Shafer

Rakesh Bhatia

David Frederick Lyons

Jeffrey Brian Straubel

Michael Francis O'Connor

Kevin J Haley

William A Scott

Mitchell C Barham

Gregory L Richards

Michael A Kast

John Littleboy

Kevin Patrick Smith O′Leary

Stephen R Mcclure

Philip Wayne Luk

Unmanned aerial vehicle

Embodiments are described for a stabilization system configured, in some embodiments, for stabilizing image capture from an aerial vehicle (e.g., a UAV). According to some embodiments, the stabilization systems employs both active and passive stabilization means. A passive stabilization assembly includes a counter-balanced suspension system that includes an elongated arm that extends into and is coupled to the body of a vehicle. The counter-balanced suspension system passively stabilizes a mounted device such as an image capture device to counter motion of the UAV while in use. In some embodiment the counter-balanced suspension system passively stabilizes a mounted image capture assembly that includes active stabilization means (e.g., a motorized gimbal and/or electronic image stabilization). In some embodiments, the active and passive stabilization means operate together to effectively stabilize a mounted image capture device to counter a wide range of motion characteristics.

Counter-balancing vibrations from a vehicle for stabilizing image capture

An introduced autonomous aerial vehicle can include multiple cameras for capturing images of a surrounding physical environment that are utilized for motion planning by an autonomous navigation system. In some embodiments, the cameras can be integrated into one or more rotor assemblies that house powered rotors to free up space within the body of the aerial vehicle. In an example embodiment, an aerial vehicle includes multiple upward-facing cameras and multiple downward-facing cameras with overlapping fields of view to enable stereoscopic computer vision in a plurality of directions around the aerial vehicle. Similar camera arrangements can also be implemented in fixed-wing aerial vehicles.

Autonomous aerial vehicle hardware configuration

An actuator is introduced that utilizes the forces that result from placing a current carrying coil in a magnetic field to rotate a connected object about at least one axis. In some embodiments, the introduced coil actuator includes a coil of conductor coupled to an arm or other type of structural element that extends radially from an axis of rotation. The introduced coil actuator can be utilized to provide motion control in a variety of different applications such as gimbal mechanisms. In some embodiments, the introduced coil actuator can be implemented in a gimbal mechanism for adjusting an orientation of a device such as a camera relative to a connected platform such as the body of an aerial vehicle.

Coil actuator

The apparatus of one embodiment of the present invention is comprised of a flexible sheath instrument, a flexible guide instrument, and a tool. The flexible sheath instrument comprises a first instrument base removably coupleable to an instrument driver and defines a sheath instrument working lumen. The flexible guide instrument comprises a second instrument base removably coupleable to the instrument driver and is threaded through the sheath instrument working lumen. The guide instrument also defines a guide instrument working lumen. The tool is threaded through the guide instrument working lumen. For this embodiment of the apparatus, the sheath instrument and guide instrument are independently controllable relative to each other.

Robotic catheter system and methods

The technology described herein relates to autonomous aerial vehicle rotor configurations. In some embodiments, the aerial vehicle includes a central body that extends along a longitudinal axis from a forward end to an aft end including a port side opposite a starboard side. Multiple rotor arms each have a proximal end coupled to the central body and a rotor assembly arranged at a distal end to provide propulsion for the aerial vehicle. The rotor assemblies include a first set of rotor assemblies and a second set of rotor assemblies. The first set of rotor assemblies are arranged in a non-inverted configuration on a top side of the aerial vehicle such that each rotor assembly includes an upward-facing rotor. The second set of rotor assemblies are arranged in an inverted configuration on a bottom side of the aerial vehicle such that each rotor assembly includes a downward-facing rotor.

Autonomous aerial vehicle rotor configurations

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Daniel Thomas Adams