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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2021
Applicant:
The Texas A&m University System, College Station, TX (US);
Inventors:
Bochan Lee, College Station, TX (US);
Moble Benedict, College Station, TX (US);
Assignee:
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 45/00 (2006.01); B64D 45/08 (2006.01); B64D 47/08 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64D 45/08 (2013.01); B64D 47/08 (2013.01); G05D 1/106 (2019.05); G08G 5/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
An autonomous landing system for vertical landing aircraft includes a vertical landing aircraft including a powertrain and an onboard camera, a motion-stabilized visual cue including a visual indicator, wherein the visual cue is configured to maintain a fixed orientation of the visual indicator with respect to a horizon, and an autonomous control system configured to control a position of the aircraft with respect to the visual indicator of the visual cue based on image data captured by the onboard camera.