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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2018
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Yang Zhao, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Huan Tan, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Steven Gray, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Ghulam Baloch, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Mauricio Castillo-Effen, Rexford, NY (US);
Judith Guzzo, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Shiraj Sen, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Douglas Forman, Schenectady, NY (US);
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
System and methods may evaluate and/or improve target aiming accuracy for a sensor of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ('UAV'). According to some embodiments, a position and orientation measuring unit may measure a position and orientation associated with the sensor. A pose estimation platform may execute a first order calculation using the measured position and orientation as the actual position and orientation to create a first order model. A geometry evaluation platform may receive planned sensor position and orientation from a targeting goal data store and calculate a standard deviation for a target aiming error utilizing: (i) location and geometry information associated with the industrial asset, (ii) a known relationship between the sensor and a center-of-gravity of the UAV, (iii) the first order model as a transfer function, and (iv) an assumption that the position and orientation of the sensor have Gaussian-distributed noises with zero mean and a pre-determined standard deviation.