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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2023
Archer Aviation, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony Hunter, San Jose, CA;
Timothy Mclain, Provo, UT (US);
Joshua Mangelson, Spanish Fork, UT (US);
Gary Long, Dorchester, MA (US);
Pablo Hopman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Siddhartha Kumar, Campbell, CA (US);
David Christopher Akagi, Poway, CA (US);
Kalliyan Velasco, Magna, UT (US);
ARCHER AVIATION, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods of providing guidance to assist eVTOL aerial vehicles in performing landing and takeoff operations at landing locations in GPS-denied environments are disclosed. An exemplary system includes an aerial vehicle comprising a camera configured to generate images based on information transmitted by a plurality of light sources located adjacent a landing surface for the aerial vehicle and a controller circuit configured to receive the generated images and determine a position and an orientation of the aerial vehicle based on the received images, wherein the light sources are arranged in a predetermined pattern on the landing surface, and wherein a characteristic of light emitted from each of the light sources is modulated with respect to time.