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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2024
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Jung Soon Jang, Bellevue, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A boom control system includes sensors that output sensor data indicative of a three-dimensional (3D) position of a receiver aircraft and a refueling boom in respective reference frames. An electronic control unit (ECU) reads a 3D model of the receiver from memory. The sensor data includes a 3D position of the receiver and boom in respective reference frames. The ECU maps points in the receiver reference frame to the boom reference frame as mapped points using the 3D model of the receiver and a linear model of the boom. The ECU computes Euclidian distances between each of the mapped points and each respective point on the boom, determines a minimum Euclidian distance, and executes a flight control operation of the boom in response to the minimum Euclidian radial distance being less than a threshold minimum distance.
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