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7350743 |
Missiles and control systems therefor
A homing missile of which the target tracker has a restricted, e.g. a slit-shaped, field-of-view and which incorporates means whereby the field-of-view may be rotated, e.g. by rolling the missile,...
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7341221 |
Attitude determination with magnetometers for gun-launched munitions
A system and method for performing attitude determination for projectiles comprises a projectile; a plurality of magnetometers arranged orthogonally to one another in the projectile, wherein the...
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7278609 |
Movable nose cap and control strut assembly for supersonic aircraft
A nose cap and control strut assembly for supersonic aircraft is disclosed. In one embodiment, the nose cap extends forward from the nose of the aircraft to deflect shock waves and decrease draft...
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7226015 |
Aircraft and missile forebody flow control device and method of controlling flow
The present invention relates to a forebody flow control system and more particularly to aircraft or missile flow control system for enhanced maneuverability and stabilization at high angles of...
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7219579 |
Apparatus and method for actuating control surfaces
An apparatus for actuating a control surface includes a first spur gear, a first drive assembly engaged with the first spur gear, a second spur gear, a second drive assembly engaged with the second...
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7108223 |
Missile control system and method
A missile includes a tail section having a multi-nozzle grid with both fixed nozzlettes, and movable, thrust vector nozzlettes. The movable nozzlettes may be configured in a number of discrete...
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7102113 |
Three-axis attitude control propulsion device and flying object comprising the same
A three-axis attitude control propulsion device and a flying object like a rocket including the device are provided in which combustion gas for attitude control can be efficiently used. A...
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7076342 |
Attitude sensing apparatus for determining the attitude of a mobile unit
An attitude sensing apparatus for determining the attitude of a mobile unit is provided that can reliably estimate an alignment angle between a GPS antenna coordinate system and an IMU coordinate...
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7070144 |
Aircraft and missile afterbody flow control device and method of controlling flow
The present invention relates to an afterbody flow control system and more particularly to aircraft or missile flow control system for enhanced maneuverability and stabilization. The present...
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7004423 |
Projectile diverter
The present invention provides a fast, low-cost, small diverter capable of generating a relatively high impulse (1-5 N-sec) over a short time period. The diverter is adapted for installation in a...
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6978966 |
Reflector deployment error estimation
A system and method for performing in-orbit alignment calibration using on-board attitude sensors to improve reflector alignment after deployment to improve spacecraft pointing.
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6951317 |
Vehicle, lightweight pneumatic pilot valve and related systems therefor
A vehicle, such as a missile, with a pilot valve system controls the vehicle's thrust valves despite a hostile propellant gas environment. The pilot valve system can have one or more pilot valves....
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6889935 |
Directional control of missiles
A missile includes one or more arrays of barrel assemblies that are displaced from the centre of gravity of missile. Each barrel assembly includes a plurality of projectiles axially disposed within...
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6886774 |
Method for piloting a spinning projectile
A method of projectile control provides a control order for an organ allowing the yaw piloting of a spinning projectile. The control order causes a modification of a yaw piloting parameter of the...
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6871105 |
Methods and apparatus for reducing hyperplanes in a control space
A method for facilitating an optimization of a control space in n dimensions is provided. The control space includes a plurality of points, and the method includes removing at least one hyperplane...
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6863244 |
Mitigation of angular acceleration effects on optical sensor data
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for compensating for optical sensor data corrupted by angular acceleration is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of...
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6817568 |
Missile system with multiple submunitions
A multi-staged missile includes a booster and a submunition delivery vehicle that has one or more submunitions. The booster rapidly accelerates the submunition vehicle, and then separates from the...
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6776369 |
Gliding vehicle guidance
Guidance of a gliding vehicle is disclosed. A method of the invention allows the range of the glide phase of a gliding vehicle to be maximized, while satisfying final flight path angle and aimpoint...
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6752351 |
Low mass flow reaction jet
A control system for a flying vehicle in an atmospheric environment, the vehicle having an aerodynamic shape including a front end and a rear end including a plurality of attitude control jet...
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6751529 |
System and method for controlling model aircraft
In one embodiment, a method for controlling an aircraft comprises providing an attitude error as a first input into a neural controller and an attitude rate as a second input into the neural...
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6727843 |
Method and arrangement for determining the angle of roll of a launchable rotating body which rotates in its paths
The present invention concerns a method and an arrangement for determining the angle of roll of a launchable body ( 4 ) which rotates in its path. The launchable body ( 4 ) can consist of a...
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6722609 |
Impulse motor and apparatus to improve trajectory correctable munitions including cannon launched munitions, glide bombs, missiles, rockets and the like
An device for correcting the in-flight trajectory of a munition consists of an impulse motor assembly body. The slug or multiple slugs and propellant(s) are located within the impulse motor...
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6695251 |
Method and system for synchronized forward and Aft thrust vector control
A system for controlling attitude about pitch, yaw, and roll axes and axial thrust of a body. The system comprises a main thrust generator located on an aft portion of the body and at least one...
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6685134 |
Artillery rocket
The MLRS1 artillery rockets ( 11 ) which are stored in the depots of the consumer can enjoy in a technologically non-critical fashion an increase in performance in the sense of a substantially...
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6637699 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a trajectory of a projectile
An apparatus for controlling a trajectory of a projectile includes a planetary drive train, a yaw drive assembly engaged with the planetary drive train, and a pitch drive assembly engaged with the...
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6629668 |
Jump correcting projectile system
A system for controlling the trajectory of a launched projectile. More particularly, a method for correcting the projectile jump displacement of a launched projectile after it is released from a...
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6628995 |
Method and system for variable flight data collection
Aircraft flight data collection is enhanced by changing the data sampling rate as a function of an operational condition of the aircraft, such as its flight phase. An algorithm is used to determine...
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6610971 |
Ship self-defense missile weapon system
The present invention provides a ship self-defense missile (SSDM) weapon system for launching a plurality of light weight missiles from an existing vertical tube launch infrastructure. The system...
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6604705 |
Control group for directional fins on missiles and/or shells
Control group for directional fins on missiles and/or shells which have a containment body ( 15, 15′, 15″ ) that has on the outside of the containment body, two command surfaces in the form of...
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6596976 |
Method and system for pointing and stabilizing a device
A method and system for pointing and stabilizing a device that needs to be pointed and stabilized with a desired direction, are disclosed, wherein current attitude measurement and attitude rate...
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6556897 |
Method and apparatus for limiting attitude drift during turns
An apparatus, method and computer program product useful for supplying the pilot of an aircraft with aircraft attitude information. During bank angles exceeding a predefined limit, the roll gyro is...
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6543716 |
Shipboard point defense system and elements therefor
A combined defense and navigational system on a naval vessel is disclosed. The disclosed system includes a track-while-scan pulse radar which is controlled to provide either navigational...
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6483455 |
Device for the unambiguous measurement of the roll of a projectile and application to the correction of the path of a projectile
A device for the unambiguous measurement of the angle of roll of a projectile, comprises at least a radar equipped with means of processing and sending a signal to the casing of the projectile in...
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6481666 |
Method and system for guiding submunitions
A submunition for delivery in a carrier, the submunition including a satellite aided global location system guidance system mounted on the submunition for guiding the submunition towards a...
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6474593 |
Guided bullet
A projectile having a plurality of micro electromechanical (MEMS) devices disposed about the axis of flight for active control of the trajectory of the projectile. The MEMS devices each form an...
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6467722 |
Magnetostrictive missile guidance system
The Magnetostrictive Missile Guidance System pivots the missile nosecone about a multi-directional joint on the missile axis to produce aerodynamic control forces for missile flight path control....
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6422509 |
Tracking device
A tracking device includes a motor, top and bottom propellers of opposite sense attached to the stator and rotor of the motor for rotation in opposite directions. Target sensors are provided on the...
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6402087 |
Fixed canards maneuverability enhancement
A guidance device for projectiles has stationary canards ( 40 ) and thrusters ( 50 ) positioned on the nose ( 20 ) of the projectile ( 10 ). The thrusters ( 50 ) are initiated from remote or local...
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6398155 |
Method and system for determining the pointing direction of a body in flight
A method to determine the direction in which a spinning projectile is traveling. A solar sensor array on the projectile is used to calculate the orientation of the axis of rotation of the...
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6364248 |
Articulated nose missile control actuation system
A missile nose is tiltable and rotatable relative to a missile body through the action of an actuator system. In an exemplary embodiment, the actuator systems uses two electro-mechanical actuators...
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6360987 |
Methods and apparatus for swash plate guidance and control
Apparatuses and methods for controlling an object spinning at a first rate in a first direction. The apparatus includes a swash plate, a rotor, a spin actuator, a roll actuator, and a pitch...
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6360986 |
Process and device for guiding a flying craft, in particular a missile, onto a target
The present invention relates to a process and a device for guiding a flying craft onto a target, the device ( 1 ) comprising a detector (D) pointed at the target in such a way that a projection of...
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6352217 |
Missile fin locking and unlocking mechanism including a mechanical force amplifier
A locking and unlocking mechanism for moveable control fins extending from the surface of a missile. The locking mechanism includes a pin extending thru the outer surface of the missile into an...
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6347763 |
System and method for reducing dispersion of small rockets
An active damping method and a self-contained active damping system that can be retrofitted to existing rockets are provided which for reducing the dispersion of rockets by using lateral thrusters...
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6345785 |
Drag-brake deployment method and apparatus for range error correction of spinning, gun-launched artillery projectiles
In a projectile launched by a gun, the projectile including a fuze with a longitudinal axis of symmetry and a braking device, an apparatus disposed in the fuze for determining a time of deployment...
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6318667 |
Stealth weapon systems
A winged bomb is launched from a launch aircraft and glides to a target. During the glide the winged bomb follows a calculated guide path stored in a on board computer, with correction generated by...
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6308911 |
Method and apparatus for rapidly turning a vehicle in a fluid medium
In a first aspect, the invention uses the thrust and axial aerodynamic forces of and on the missile system as the primary mechanism for altering the missile system's flight path as opposed to the...
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6299101 |
Adjusting apparatus for control surfaces of a missile
In an adjusting apparatus for control surfaces of a missile the control surfaces 2, 3 are displaceable by adjusting motors 5, 6 by way of thrust spindles 15. To afford a compact structure and a low...
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6283407 |
Fuselage nose for controlling aerodynamic vehicles and method of utilizing same
A control system for aerodynamic vehicles has a fuselage nose segment and at least one strake. The fuselage nose segment is rotationally adjustable with respect to the aircraft fuselage. The at...
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RE37331 |
Dual-control scheme for improved missile maneuverability
A comparative dual-control strategy actuates forward and aft control devices simultaneously to significantly improve a missile's maneuverability/dynamic capability. A substantial, and measurable,...
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