Reliable Robotics Corporation

Robert W Rose

Matthew T Nehrenz

John P Couluris

Juerg Frefel

Samuel P Pullen

Michael A Sherback

Michael Westenhaver

While an aircraft is in flight toward the desired landing site, the aircraft generates a navigation solution to land the aircraft at the landing site. The navigation solution is transmitted to an operator that is at a location remote from the aircraft. The operator reviews the navigation solution and provides a confirmation whether the navigation solution is accurate back to the aircraft.

Landing site localization for dynamic control of an aircraft toward a landing site

System and graphical user interface for managing communications between a remote terminal device operated by a remote pilot or other operator and an uncrewed aircraft. Specifically, the systems described herein can be used for secure and reliable generation and transmission of a flight path or route by a ground station located remote from an uncrewed aircraft. Using the generation and transmission schemes described herein, the flight path may be reliably transmitted from the ground station to the uncrewed aircraft and execution of operations corresponding to the generated flight path may be controlled by a ground-based pilot having a valid authentication data stored on a removable media.

System for managing flight controls from a ground station for an uncrewed aircraft

An aircraft receives pseudorange input from a plurality of satellites of an augmentation system. Each pseudorange input includes a precise position solution and error data. The aircraft receives a high frequency measurement from an inertial navigation system. The aircraft applies the precise position solution, error data, and high frequency measurement to a set of parallel Schmidt extended Kalman filters to produce a corrected position solution and integrity data. The aircraft applies the integrity data to a receiver autonomous integrity monitoring system to produce a protection level for the corrected position solution. The aircraft performs an aircraft operation using the corrected position solution and protection level.

Filter augmented receiver autonomous integrity monitoring in aircraft

Radar altimeter augmented receiver autonomous integrity monitoring in aircraft

A system having components coupled to an aircraft in operation processes sensor-derived data, performs a localization cross-checking procedure, and dynamically generates updated analyses of the position and orientation of the aircraft. Based on the updated analyses, the system can generate instructions for flight control of the aircraft and can update flight control instructions as new data is received and processed. The system functions to reduce the 'worst-case' bounds on a localization estimate for the aircraft to a low enough level that is appropriate for completing a flight operation.

Cross-checking localization during aircraft terminal operations

A system having components coupled to an aircraft and components remote from the aircraft processes radar-augmented data, transmits information between aircraft system components and/or remote system components, and dynamically determines locations and states of the aircraft, while the aircraft is in flight. Based on the locations and states of the aircraft, the system generates instructions for flight control of the aircraft toward a flight path appropriate to the locations of the aircraft, and can update flight control instructions as new data is received and processed.

Survey-augmented navigation system for an aircraft

A system having components coupled to an aircraft and components remote from the aircraft processes sensor-derived data, transmits information between aircraft system components and remote system components, and dynamically generates updated analyses of position and orientation of the aircraft relative to a desired landing site, while the aircraft is in flight toward the desired landing site. Based on the position and orientation information, the system generates instructions for flight control of the aircraft toward a flight path to the landing site, and can update flight control instructions as new data is received and processed.

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Robert W Rose