Baird Corporation

Imo Industries Inc.

Herman G Eldering

Arthur W Kliman

A manually movable gun is mounted to a platform with a limited range of correctional computer-controlled updated reorientation in azimuth and in elevation with respect to the platform. The platform fixedly mounts a sighting-rangefinder system, so that correctional reorientation of the gun is a correctional reorientation with respect to the sighting axis of the sighting/rangefinder system. The platform is mounted for two-axis freedom to be moved in azimuth and in elevation. The gunner must so move the gun platform, and at the same time thereby so move his sight, that the sighting alignment is kept on the target. In the course of such movement to keep the sighting line on the target, sensors and detectors of target range and of the components of platform movement in its mount, as well as sensors of other ballistic parameters, feed their output to circuitry including a computer. The computer derives range rate and the two components of the orientation rate of the platform, and provides a calculated output of the necessary two components of trim adjustment of the gun with respect to its mounting platform. Such correctional adjustments are effected by computer control of trim-adjustment motors, in azimuth and in elevation, while the operator keeps his sighting line on the target. The loop of computer calculation in response to updating sensor outputs and range and bearing data is so fast as to reduce the near-insignificance of the time delay of computer calculation and motordriven correctional orientation of the gun, as long as the operator keeps his sight in line on the target. He therefore need not wait to fire a machine-gun burst even while the correctional adjustments are still being made.

Disturbed-gun aiming system

An optically readable system and method to allow for the remote identification of people and/or objects is disclosed. The system includes a spectrally continuous source of radiation generating an interrogating beam, an optically readable device carried by a person or attached to an object and having a unique spectral signature and, generating a retroreflected beam when exposed to the interrogating beam, and an optical spectrum analyzer and decoder for identifying the unique spectral signature of the interrogated optically readable device and for transmitting the identifying information to a display and/or a computer input. The spectrally continuous source of radiation can comprise a tungsten filament lamp, a tunable laser or the like. If covert identification is desired, the source is operated to generate an interrogating beam in the infra-red spectrum only.

Remote optically readable system and method

A system for measuring radiation in the laboratory or at a site to aid in determining whether to erect a solar energy installation at that site includes a positioner and a sensor. The sensor, which is mounted on the positioner, includes a rotating semispherical chopper and an integrating sphere for collecting radiation in three modes. A broad-band detector measures the irradiance from the integrating sphere to monitor for anomalies. A pair of monochromators simultaneously measure, one in the visible range and the other in the infrared range, the spectral irradiance from the integrating sphere. Processing electronics process the measured spectral irradiance from the monochromators and generate data signals for providing an absolute irradiance spectra at the plane of the entrance aperture. The absolute irradiance spectra is inputted to an X-Y plotter and a magnetic disc and tape. The system further includes internal reference sources providing continuous wavelength and irradiance calibration.

Radiation measuring system

A system for measuring radiation in the laboratory or at a site to aid in determining whether to erect a solar energy installation at that site includes a positioner and a sensor. The sensor, which is mounted on the positioner, includes a rotating semispherical chopper and an integrating sphere for collecting radiation in three modes. A broad-band detector measures the irradiance from the integrating sphere to monitor for anomalies. A pair of monochromators simultaneously measure, one in the visible range and the other in the infrared range, the spectral irradiance from the integrating sphere. Processing electronics process the measured spectral irradiance from the monochromators and generate data signals for providing an absolute irradiance spectrum at the plane of the entrance aperture. The absolute irradiance spectrum is inputted to an X-Y plotter and a magnetic disc and tape. The system further includes internal reference sources providing continuous wavelength and irradiance calibration.

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Chelmsford, MA, United States of America

Herman G Eldering