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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2018
Hrl Laboratories, Llc, Malibu, CA (US);
Hung Nguyen, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Logan D. Sorenson, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
David L. Walter, Malibu, CA (US);
Adour V. Kabakian, Malibu, CA (US);
Raviv Perahia, Agoura Hills, CA (US);
Shuoqin Wang, Oak Park, CA (US);
David W. Shahan, Malibu, CA (US);
Lian X. Huang, Malibu, CA (US);
David T. Chang, Calabasas, CA (US);
HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA (US);
Abstract
An instrument package for use during the drilling a wellbore. The instrument package includes a plurality of instruments such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers; a computer is configured to determine the current position of the plurality of instruments from a set of measurements produced by the plurality of instruments; and wherein the plurality of instruments are mechanically isolated from a drill head assembly by one or more multi-degree of freedom vibration isolators. The computer preferably has at least two modes different analytical modes of analyzing the set of measurements produced by the plurality of instruments, including a continuous mode and a survey mode, the continuous mode being operational during times that active drilling is occurring and the survey mode being operational during times that the active drilling is not occurring.