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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 1982
Filed:
Mar. 24, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Edmond E Olive, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Sperry Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D / ; B64C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364434 ; 244184 ; 364447 ;
Abstract
The flight path transition control apparatus provides a roll attitude command to control the aircraft to execute an exponential transition path to a predetermined course in accordance with the exponential control law Y+KY where Y is the lateral displacement of the aircraft from the predetermined course, Y is the rate of change of the lateral displacement and K is a time constant of the system. A predictive roll command .phi..sub.p is generated in accordance with ##EQU1## where V.sub.g is the aircraft ground speed,