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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2022
Alphacore, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Joseph Smith, Tempe, AZ (US);
Siyang Cao, Tucson, AZ (US);
Alphacore, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
Collision avoidance is an important issue for unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs). As such, UAVs can be outfitted with a simple and inexpensive sensor for use in collision avoidance. The sensor can be attached to a gimbal and can include a RADAR transmit antenna, a RADAR receive antenna, and an optical camera. The RADAR transmit antenna and RADAR receive antenna are part of a RADAR system. The optical camera and the RADAR system are bore sighted to one another by aligning their fields of view. The optical camera captures an image of a target when the RADAR system indicates the target is in the field of view. The RADAR system and image data can be used to determine a target trajectory. The target trajectory can be used to avoid a collision with the target.