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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2006
Paul Gerard Trepagnier, Metairie, LA (US);
Jorge Emilio Nagel, Caracas, VE;
Powell Mcvay Kinney, Slidell, LA (US);
Matthew Taylor Dooner, New Orleans, LA (US);
Bruce Mackie Wilson, Metairie, LA (US);
Carl Reimers Schneider, Jr., Metairie, LA (US);
Keith Brian Goeller, Covington, LA (US);
Paul Gerard Trepagnier, Metairie, LA (US);
Jorge Emilio Nagel, Caracas, VE;
Powell McVay Kinney, Slidell, LA (US);
Matthew Taylor Dooner, New Orleans, LA (US);
Bruce Mackie Wilson, Metairie, LA (US);
Carl Reimers Schneider, Jr., Metairie, LA (US);
Keith Brian Goeller, Covington, LA (US);
Gray & Company, Inc., Metairie, LA (US);
Abstract
A navigation and control system including a sensor configured to locate objects in a predetermined field of view from a vehicle. The sensor has an emitter configured to repeatedly scan a beam into a two-dimensional sector of a plane defined with respect to a first predetermined axis of the vehicle, and a detector configured to detect a reflection of the emitted beam from one of the objects. The sensor includes a panning mechanism configured to pan the plane in which the beam is scanned about a second predetermined axis to produce a three dimensional field of view. The navigation and control system includes a processor configured to determine the existence and location of the objects in the three dimensional field of view based on a position of the vehicle and a time between an emittance of the beam and a reception of the reflection of the emitted beam from one of the objects.