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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Applicant:
Bell Textron Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Inventor:
Sung Kyun Kim, Bedford, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC., Providence, RI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 9/00 (2006.01); B64C 29/02 (2006.01); B64D 47/00 (2006.01); G01C 23/00 (2006.01); B64C 39/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 9/005 (2013.01); B64C 29/02 (2013.01); B64D 47/00 (2013.01); G01C 23/005 (2013.01); B64C 39/024 (2013.01); B64C 2201/02 (2013.01); B64C 2201/145 (2013.01); B64C 2201/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rotorcraft is described and includes an inertial measurement unit ('IMU') sensor mounted to the rotorcraft, the IMU sensor oriented relative to the rotorcraft such that a roll attitude of the rotorcraft occurs about a Z-axis and has a range of ±90 degrees, a pitch attitude of the rotorcraft occurs about an X-axis and has a range of ±180 degrees, and a yaw attitude of the rotorcraft occurs about a Y-axis and has a range of ±180 degrees.