Archer Aviation, Inc.

David Christopher Akagi

Pablo Hopman

Timothy Mclain

Anthony Hunter

Siddhartha Kumar

Gary Long

Joshua Mangelson

Kalliyan Velasco

Systems and methods of providing guidance to assist eVTOL aerial vehicles in performing landing and takeoff operations at landing locations in GPS-denied environments are disclosed. An exemplary system includes an aerial vehicle comprising a camera configured to generate images based on information transmitted by a plurality of light sources located adjacent a landing surface for the aerial vehicle and a controller circuit configured to receive the generated images and determine a position and an orientation of the aerial vehicle based on the received images, wherein the light sources are arranged in a predetermined pattern on the landing surface, and wherein a characteristic of light emitted from each of the light sources is modulated with respect to time.

Systems and methods for active-light based precision localization of aircrafts in GPS-denied environments

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Poway, CA, United States of America

David Christopher Akagi