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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:
GE Aviation Systems Llc, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Inventors:
Michael Steven Feldmann, Rockford, MI (US);
Frank Saggio, III, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Timothy John Paasche, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Mark Lawrence Turner, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
John Andrew Ingersoll, Plainwell, MI (US);
Assignee:
GE AVIATION SYSTEMS LLC, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/03 (2006.01); G01B 11/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 11/002 (2013.01); G01C 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A relative navigation system and methods of intrusion detection for such a relative navigation system where the method includes repeatedly projecting from a grid generator a set of lines defining a grid into three dimensional space to define a field bounded by the grid and encoded with grid data configured to identify predetermined points on the grid and determining a presence of an intruding object within the field.