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7366591 |
System and method for vertical flight planning
A method for performing performance prediction with respect to a vertical flight plan. A system performs performance prediction with respect to a vertical flight plan of an aircraft that includes...
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7363152 |
Method and system for calculating a flight route
The invention concerns a method and a system for calculating a flight route between a first position and a second position. According to the method, the first position is chosen as the current...
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7363119 |
Methods and systems for automatically displaying information, including air traffic control instructions
Systems and methods for handling incoming aircraft operation instructions are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the invention includes receiving from a source off-board an...
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7356390 |
Systems and applications of lighter-than-air (LTA) platforms
Innovative new methods in connection with lighter-than-air (LTA) free floating platforms, of facilitating legal transmitter operation, platform flight termination when appropriate, environmentally...
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7353090 |
System, bus monitor assembly and method of monitoring at least one data bus of an aircraft
A system is provided for monitoring at least one data bus of an aircraft. The system includes an aircraft adapted to control the operation of stores of a second predetermined type (e.g., Harpoon...
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7353091 |
Method of displaying cartographic information and aeronautical zones on an aircraft screen
The field of the invention is that of methods of synthesizing cartographic images presented on display devices. This method is applied more specifically to visual flight on rotary-wing aircraft....
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7347090 |
Methods and systems for calculating atmospheric vehicle air data
Methods and systems for calculating atmospheric vehicle air data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of calculating air data includes acquiring one or more pressure measurements at locations...
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7342515 |
Hybrid centered head-down aircraft attitude display and method for calculating displayed drift angle limit
Methods and apparatus are provided for displaying terrain and attitude data symbology for an aircraft. The apparatus is a hybrid centered head-down display for an aircraft having a monitor...
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7343228 |
Transient cancellation technique for spacecraft solar wing stepping
A method and apparatus for controlling a plurality of solar panels of a spacecraft is described. The method comprises the steps of providing a first step command to a first solar panel, and...
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7337063 |
Method and system for using database and GPS data to linearize VOR and ILS navigation data
A method and system for determining a deviation of a vehicle from a desired course are described. The method includes receiving bearing signals from a transmitter, accessing a database, on the...
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7334939 |
Method and device for verifying a temperature value at a destination altitude of an aircraft
The device comprises a means for measuring a dynamic temperature on the outside of the aircraft, a means for determining a static temperature around the aircraft, using said dynamic temperature, a...
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7310577 |
Integrated capacitive bridge and integrated flexure functions inertial measurement unit
An inertia control system includes an integrated inertial measurement unit coupled to an inertial platform. The integrated inertial measurement unit includes three accelerometer gimbals/axes...
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7305772 |
Graphical clinometer display system and method
A system for monitoring inclination of a vehicle is disclosed, wherein the system comprises a clinometer in communication with a computer. The clinometer is configured to measure at least one...
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7299113 |
System and method for determining aircraft tapeline altitude
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for accurately determining aircraft altitude, impact pressure, and calibrated air speed are provided. The determined results may be used for...
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7286911 |
Aircraft pilot assistance system and method
A system and method for assisting a pilot to recover the aircraft from a variety of dangerous situations involving one or more of the following: altitude, airspeed, attitude, roll rate, and a...
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7277043 |
Tactical aircraft check algorithm, system and method
A method of generating aircraft tactical alerts includes receiving track positions for two aircraft; receiving trajectories and static conformance bounds for the two aircraft; receiving current...
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7274978 |
Electrical power supply system for unmanned aircraft
A miniature, unmanned aircraft for acquiring digitized data, transmitting digitized data, or both, having an electrical supply system capable of sustained operation. The aircraft has a fuselage, a...
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7272470 |
Path guidance systems for a parachute/paraglider and flight path planning devices for planning the use of at least one parachute or paraglider, and system for carrying out said path guidance and planning
Flight path planning device for determining path guidance specifications for at least one parachute or paraglider ( 5 ), which determines an altitude/time corridor ( 20, 30 ) as a flying range to...
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7263414 |
Method and device for controlling the attitude of an aircraft
A method and device for controlling the attitude of an aircraft may employ spoilers that are arranged on the wings of the aircraft and whose respective angular positions can be adjusted by...
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7260456 |
Pixel-frequency slews and filters for star data measurements
A method and apparatus for reducing centroiding error of a star sensor having a plurality of pixels is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of computing a star sensor angular slew rate of ω...
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7248949 |
System and method for stochastic aircraft flight-path modeling
Stochastic models of aircraft flight paths and a method for deriving such models from recorded air traffic data. Each stochastic model involves identifying the flight plan for one or more aircraft;...
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7248948 |
Apparatus and method for estimating attitude using inertial measurement equipment
An apparatus for estimating attitude using an inertia measuring apparatus comprising: a Kalman filter 3 adapted to receive a quantity of state ω(t) from the inertia measuring apparatus 1 ,...
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7248342 |
Three-dimension imaging lidar
This invention is directed to a 3-dimensional imaging lidar, which utilizes modest power kHz rate lasers, array detectors, photon-counting multi-channel timing receivers, and dual wedge optical...
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7228231 |
Multiple stayout zones for ground-based bright object exclusion
A vehicle ( 12 ) including a control system ( 18 ) is used for controlling vehicle attitude or angular velocity ( 38 ). The processor ( 24 ) is coupled to a star sensor or tracker ( 22 ) and a...
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7225063 |
Aircraft control system
A flight control system for preventing an aircraft colliding with designated man-made structures in which the geographical position of the aircraft is determined and then compared with...
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7219011 |
Vertical deviation indication and prediction system
A vertical deviation indicator and predictor includes a vertical deviation scale having a plurality of vertically spaced markers, one of the markers indicating the vehicle's present vertical...
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7219014 |
Method and apparatus for real-time star exclusion from a database
A vehicle ( 12 ) including a control system ( 18 ) is used for controlling vehicle attitude or angular velocity ( 38 ). The processor ( 24 ) is coupled to a star sensor or tracker ( 22 ) and a...
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7215256 |
Method and apparatus for displaying attitude, heading, and terrain data
A method for displaying attitude, heading, and navigation data on a single display is described. The method comprises configuring the display with terrain data, overlaying the terrain display with...
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7216036 |
Integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor
An integrated inertial stellar attitude sensor for an aerospace vehicle includes a star camera system, a gyroscope system, a controller system for synchronously integrating an output of said star...
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7209052 |
Method and device for determining a safe altitude for an aircraft
A method and device for determines a safe altitude for an aircraft. The device includes a unit that determines a clear zone corresponding to a lateral area dependent on the flight of the aircraft....
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7205907 |
Non linear tape display
A graphical display of a nonlinear scale emulating the view of a mechanical drum gauge. The nonlinear scale may be used for the display of aircraft flight data including airspeed, altitude,...
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7203577 |
Methods and systems for displaying the source of aircraft control instructions
Methods and systems for displaying the source of aircraft control instructions are disclosed. A method in accordance with one embodiment to the invention includes receiving a first target to which...
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7188007 |
Apparatuses and methods for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information
Methods and apparatuses for displaying and receiving tactical and strategic flight guidance information. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention includes displaying at least one...
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7184072 |
Airborne inventory and inspection system and apparatus
A system and apparatus for acquiring images of electric transmission line tower structures, equipment attached to said tower structures, and transmission lines suspended from said towers. The...
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7184801 |
Mobile application builder
A method and system which allow a user to define and edit workflow applications for a mobile device, screens associated with the applications, and workflow process is described. The states or...
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7161501 |
Historical analysis of aircraft flight parameters
Method and system for analyzing and displaying one or more present flight parameter values FP(t) of an aircraft in motion at a measurement time t n , and for comparing the present flight parameter...
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7142981 |
Laser range finder closed-loop pointing technology of relative navigation, attitude determination, pointing and tracking for spacecraft rendezvous
A closed-loop LRF pointing technology to measure the range of a target satellite from a chaser satellite for rendezvous is provided that includes: LOS angle measurements of the target, a relative...
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7139651 |
Multi-source positioning system for work machines
A three-dimensional and a two-dimensional GPS unit periodically provide coordinate positions of points on the work machine and are combined with a Kalman filter to produce a point of reference on a...
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7139643 |
Control device with servocontrol loop, particularly an electro-hydraulic flight control actuator
A control device includes a main servocontrol loop having a servocontrolled system, and a compensation device on the input side of the control device. The control device includes an internal loop...
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7136011 |
System for avoidance of collision between an aircraft and an obstacle
A field unit for warning of a danger of collision between an aircraft and an obstacle, in particular a topographical ground obstacle or an obstacle formed by a mast, building or aerial cable...
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7124001 |
Relative attitude estimator for multi-payload attitude determination
A method and apparatus for estimating a slave payload attitude is disclosed. The method includes accepting a plurality of slave payload attitude measurements, deriving a model of the relative...
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7123749 |
Height measurement apparatus
Apparatus and methods for enhancing the accuracy of height above ground measurements in which the registration error between successive images taken of the terrain over which an aircraft is flying...
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7120522 |
Alignment of a flight vehicle based on recursive matrix inversion
A method for recursively determining alignment of a flight vehicle during flight is provided. The method includes generating data in a reference coordinate frame and in a second coordinate frame at...
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7113851 |
Practical orbit raising system and method for geosynchronous satellites
A practical orbit raising method and system wherein a satellite quickly escapes the Van Allen radiation belts and payload mass and mission life are maximized. A satellite is launched that contains...
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7107146 |
Methods and systems for generating a terrain elevation map in a cartesian format
Methods, systems, and computer program products for re-sampling terrain data in a vehicle from latitude/longitude format into a Cartesian format. The present invention permits incremental updates...
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7095364 |
Altitude measurement system and associated methods
An altitude measuring system and method for aircraft is provided. The altitude measuring system includes altitude sensors for providing data to an altitude processing unit. The altitude processing...
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7089092 |
Airborne system and method for improving the integrity of electronic landing aids
A method of increasing positional awareness of a pilot of an aircraft during a landing approach of the aircraft. First data from a navigational aid is received. The first data is analyzed to...
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7076341 |
Autonomous manoeuvring for spinning spacecraft
An inventive autonomous active manoeuvring method and system 1 for spinning spacecraft is provided having a capability to enhance the AOCMS performance of passive spinning satellites and to...
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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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7062364 |
Electronic non-linear aircraft dynamic parameter display
A method and apparatus is disclosed for displaying a dynamic parameter of an aircraft, the apparatus comprises a display unit receiving a display signal and displaying a scale that changes...
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