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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2017
Systems and methods for controlling an aerial vehicle using lateral propulsion and vertical movement
Loon Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sergey Vichik, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cyrus Behroozi, Menlo Park, CA (US);
C. O. Lee Boyce, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Loon LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An aerial vehicle control system includes an aerial vehicle and a computing device. The aerial vehicle includes an altitude controller and a lateral propulsion controller The computing device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to obtain location data corresponding to a location of the aerial vehicle; obtain wind data; determine an altitude command, a latitude command, and a longitude command based on at least one of the location data or the wind data; cause the altitude controller to implement at least one of the altitude command, the latitude command, or the longitude command; and cause the lateral propulsion controller to implement at least one of the altitude command, the latitude command, or the longitude command.