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Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017

Filed:

Aug. 26, 2014
Applicant:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Michael Jihong Park, Somerville, MA (US);

Charles Coldwell, Belmont, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/39 (2010.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G01C 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/39 (2013.01); G05D 1/0094 (2013.01); G05D 1/0202 (2013.01); G01C 23/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

Described herein is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system that incorporates sensor data to statistically minimize the time to autonomously locate a target on the ground. The system uses a two-stage approach to finding the RF target: 1) randomized flight, such as Lévy fight, to search the ground space and, 2) a geo-localization process, such as a simplex minimization process, to home in on the target.


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Park, Michael. (2017). Method and apparatus for locating a target using an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (U.S. Patent No. 9696430). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9696430

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