292results about "Vessels for aircraft" patented technology

Launch and recovery of an aerial vehicle by a forwardly moving surface vehicle relies on a winch module having a winch to selectively reel out and reel in a towline and a sensor capable of sensing tension in the towline. A lifting body assembly having a pair of lifting bodies and a snagging wire is connected to the towline. The lifting bodies lift and laterally extend the snagging wire between the lifting bodies. An aerial vehicle flying through the air engages the snagging wire by a hook. A first signal representative of tension of the towline causes the winch to reel in the towline and to bring the aerial vehicle to the surface vehicle, and a second sensor associated with the hook generates a second signal representative of tension in the hook and causes the aerial vehicle to cut its motor.

An aircraft control system for operations close to the ground includes a camera having a rangefinder for measuring the azimuth, elevation and slant range from a fixed point on the aircraft relative to a selected target point on a surface below the aircraft, a navigation system for measuring the latitude and longitude of the aircraft on the surface, a computer for computing the position of the fixed point on the aircraft relative to the target point from the respective measurements of the camera and the navigation system, and a controller for controlling the movement of the aircraft such that the fixed point is positioned at a selected position above the selected target point on the surface. The controller may also include an automatic tracking mechanism for maintaining the position of the fixed point on the aircraft at the selected position above a moving object.

Methods and apparatus for marine deployment according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a floatable housing adapted to be deployed by a marine vehicle. The floatable housing may be adapted to be launched from a marine vehicle and rise to the surface. Assets, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle, may be deployed from the surfaced floatable housing.

A method to load stores on an aircraft, the method may be controlled by one or more controller and may include one or more acts of loading stores onto corresponding lift portions; determining a relative position of the aircraft; positioning the stores relative to the determined position of the aircraft; and securing the stores to corresponding hardpoints (HPs) of the aircraft.

The present invention relates to the technical field of unmanned aerial vehicles, in particular to an unmanned ship hangar system, including unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ships and communication systems. The unmanned aerial vehicles are composed of two or more unmanned aerial vehicles. The UAV body and the onboard control system are composed. The unmanned ship is equipped with a shipboard platform, a shipboard control system and a shipboard power system. The UAV group is set on the shipboard platform. The communication system includes shipboard communication equipment and For the airborne communication equipment on the UAV, the shipboard control system and the shipboard communication equipment should be set correspondingly, and the airborne control system should be set correspondingly to the airborne communication equipment. The invention integrates the technical advantages of the existing unmanned ships and UAVs, not only realizes the effective complementation of the functions of the unmanned ships and the UAV group in the water area and the air space, but also makes up for the disadvantages of the vertical operation of the unmanned ships in the water area in the air space, and at the same time solves the problem of unmanned ships. The difficulty of human-machine endurance in waters and large-scale communication has greatly improved the work efficiency and duty performance of drones.

The present invention is directed to methods of determining a vessel-relative off-deck waypoint (VRODW) location comprising the steps of providing an aircraft in flight; determining vessel range and vessel bearing relative the aircraft; and determining the VRODW location using the range and bearing measurements of the vessel. The present invention is further directed to methods of landing an aircraft on a vessel.

A maneuvering autonomous rotorcraft cargo attachment system for engaging two mating elements of a coupling mechanism includes a first system on a ship deck to position a first coupling mechanism element in response to positioning commands and a second system attached to a rotorcraft hoist cable to position the second coupling mechanism element in response to positioning commands. A controller calculates and issues the positioning commands to the first and second positioning systems thereby effecting engagement of the two coupling elements.

The invention discloses a wireless charging device for unmanned aerial vehicles and an unmanned ship and a combined cruise searching and rescuing method. The device comprises an unmanned ship and a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles, a plurality of stop loading platforms are arranged on the unmanned ship, and the unmanned aerial vehicles berth and land and take-off through the stop loading platforms; wireless charging units are arranged below the unmanned aerial vehicles, and wireless power supplying units are arranged on the stop loading platforms; and when berthing on the stop loading platforms, the unmanned aerial vehicles are subjected to wireless charging through the wireless charging units and the wireless power supplying units. According to the wireless charging device for the unmanned aerial vehicles and the unmanned ship, the range and the efficiency of cruise searching and rescuing are enhanced greatly through combined cruise searching and rescuing of the unmanned aerial vehicles and the unmanned ship, and therefore a maritime sector can discover abnormal conditions on the sea earlier or search and rescue wrecked ships and overboard personnel earlier; and the cruising ability of the unmanned aerial vehicles is enhanced through adopting the unmanned ship to charge the unmanned aerial vehicles wirelessly, so that the unmanned aerial vehicles can conduct more cruise searching and rescuing operations.

A system for installation of a subsea module of great length by means of a vessel, using a cable for its installation and/or retrieval, and methods applied therein. The system allows transporting the subsea module on the vessel to a location in the sea and descending the subsea module into the sea at a vertical position for installation on the seabed.

The present invention discloses a take-off and landing system for carrier aircraft, which comprises a takeoff device and a landing device; said takeoff device is a bow side launch deck which is located at the front part of the aircraft carrier and extends from a track groove provided with a track guider; said landing device is a stern side rear bridge which is located at the rear part of the aircraft carrier and extends from a treadmill belt-type runway. The invention also discloses a take-off and landing method corresponding to the take-off and landing system. The take-off and landing system and the method thereof enhances advantages and avoids weaknesses with regard to the existing take-off technologies, reduces the difficulty and risk in the existing landing technology. The present invention is suitable for the take-off and landing of all kinds of carrier aircrafts and also makes a design to build a “pocket-sized aircraft carrier” become possible.

Apparatus and methods for improved transportation functionality. In one aspect, the invention comprises an improved and highly integrated transportation apparatus adapted to bring a plurality of different modalities in close physical proximity for enhanced efficiency. One exemplary embodiment comprises a multi-level structure disposed in a substantially contained low depth body of water (e.g., bay) and proximate one or more land masses to facilitate service via rail, land vehicle, ships, and ferries. Multiple long-length runways are also provided on the substantially planar top surface to accommodate air traffic. A monorail or similar system is also employed to allow ready movement between the various transportation interfaces.

An offshore depot having a vertically symmetric hull, an upper inwardly-tapered wall and a lower outwardly-tapered wall that produce significant heave damping in response to heavy wave action. Ballast is added to the lower and outermost portions of the hull to lower the center of gravity below the center of buoyancy. The offshore depot includes a tunnel formed within or through the hull at the waterline that provides a sheltered area inside the hull for safe and easy launching/docking of boats and embarkation/debarkation of personnel. When the watertight tunnel doors are all shut, the tunnel may be drained to create a dry dock environment within the hull. The offshore depot includes berthing and dinning accommodations, medical facilities, workshops, machine shops, a heliport, and the like.

A shipboard helicopter stabilized platform is characterized in that three ball sockets of the lower surface of a dynamic platform are matched with a sphere at the upper ends of leveling rods to form S pairs, and the lower ends of the leveling rods are arranged in leveling hydraulic cylinders to form P pairs; the lower ends of the leveling hydraulic cylinders are connected with a base support bottom ring through a cross shaft; two supports are fixed to a base support, and two outer shafts of a cross hinge sleeve are arranged in two shaft sleeves at the upper end of the base support; two outer shafts of a center hydraulic cylinder are arranged in two through holes of the cross hinge sleeve arranged on the upper portion of the center hydraulic cylinder in a sleeving mode to form P pairs; a ball socket is arranged at the upper end of a center supporting rod, and the ball socket is matched with a ball on the lower portion of the dynamic platform to form an S pair; a ball is arranged at the lower end of the center hydraulic cylinder, the ball is connected with one ends of two angle hydraulic cylinders respectively through a connection assembly, the other ends of the two angle hydraulic cylinders are connected to the inner annular face of the base support bottom ring, and the included angle between the axes of the two angle hydraulic cylinders is 90 degrees. By means of the shipboard helicopter stabilized platform, a shipboard helicopter can take off and land safely under large winds and waves, and meanwhile the safety of the shipboard helicopter and a ship can also be guaranteed.

A mechanism for maintaining a surface such as a landing pad in a desired orientation with respect to a supporting surface includes a pair of columns that rotate with respect to each other. The angle at which the columns engage, or the angle at which the columns engage the surface and the supporting surface, are offset with respect to a line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cylinders. By selectively rotating the columns with respect to each other and with respect to the supporting surface, the tilt and orientation of the surface are adjusted.

The invention discloses maritime patrol equipment of an unmanned aerial vehicle carried on an unmanned ship and a use method thereof. The maritime patrol equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle carried on the unmanned ship comprises the unmanned ship, the unmanned aerial vehicle, an unmanned aerial vehicle take-off and landing platform system and an unmanned aerial vehicle battery automatic changing charging system. The use method of the maritime patrol equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle carried on the unmanned ship comprises the following steps that a, the unmanned ship sails along a planning trajectory; b, the unmanned ship runs to a working area, and the unmanned aerial vehicle lifts off to work; c, the unmanned aerial vehicle transmits images and unmanned aerial vehicle relatedinformation to a ground station system; d, when the power capacity of the unmanned aerial vehicle is not enough, the unmanned aerial vehicle makes a return voyage after marking position information ofa current point; e, the unmanned aerial vehicle lands; f, a battery is changed; g, the battery is charged; h, a fully charged battery is mounted; i, the unmanned aerial vehicle returns to a marking position and returns after finishing working; and j, the unmanned ship continues to patrol. According to the maritime patrol equipment of the unmanned aerial vehicle carried on the unmanned ship, a shaking problem of the unmanned ship is solved so that the taking-off and landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle are stable; the safety of the whole system is guaranteed; and the cruising ability of theunmanned ship and the cruising ability of the unmanned aerial vehicle are improved.

The invention relates to a fixed platform which enables to locate on the water any fixed structure such as the house, garden, road, airport, car park, children's park and holiday village in the seas, lakes and rivers. Our invention comprises the platform (7) where the floats (22) thereof capable of floating are submerged up to a safe zone 3-5 m from the water (10) surface, the floats (22) spending energy to come out on the water surface (5) produce forces to try to maintain the platform (7) always at the same point owing to the tightness of the ropes (3) of the floats (22) and where said platform (7) is prevented from being drifted by the violent storms and huge waves and the currents in the sea, wherein the platform (7) which is manufactured in a manner suitable for its purpose comprises the weight (4) to the end of which the ropes (3) are connected, the connecting ropes (3) serving to maintain the floats (22) at a constant distance from the floor and in submerged state, the floats (22) producing the buoyancy carried over by the platform (7), the carrier columns (21) connecting the floats (22) with the platform (7) and the connecting pieces (20) that connect the columns (21) with the platform (7).

The invention discloses an intelligent river routing inspection system based on rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and channels. The intelligent river routing inspection system comprises a remote client side,an unmanned plane, and an unmanned ship; a first controller of the unmanned plate is connected with a second controller of the unmanned ship through wireless connection so as to realize mutual information feedback of the unmanned plate with the unmanned ship; the unmanned plane is capable of landing on the unmanned ship; the unmanned ship can be used for charging the unmanned plane using a charging device, and retrieving abnormal parts of real-time monitoring video of the unmanned plane based on monitoring states; and the unmanned plane is capable of retrieving water quality states at the unmanned ship abnormal monitoring parts through the first controller. According to the intelligent river routing inspection system, mutual cooperation of the unmanned plane and the unmanned ship is capable of realizing remote real-time monitoring of rivers and lakes, the unmanned plane is capable of performing a plurality of journeys to and fro the monitored rivers and lakes, unmanned plane monitoring range is widened, and river and lake monitoring efficiency is increased.

The invention provides various aircraft carriers, warships, submarines and offshore platforms with efficient load-eliminating swing-stopping capsizing-resisting correction devices. Load-eliminating self-balancing swing-reducing devices, load-eliminating floating air bag cushion devices, externally-suspended weight-adjustable balancer devices, correction plate and wing-type swing-reducing plate devices, devices for accelerating floating and diving of the submarines, self-balancing control devices for accelerating underwater hovering, devices for horizontally pushing whole ship hulls to quickly shift to arrive at or depart harbors, safe quick-decelerating and quick-lagging electric propeller devices and top magnetic-field inertia moving weight balancer devices are provided. The aircraft carriers, the warships, the submarines and the offshore platforms have the advantages that according to the structures, swings, in six degrees of freedom, of ships, the warships, the aircraft carriers and the offshore platforms can be solved comprehensively, sailing ship hulls are timely and safely protected from sudden obstacles, perfect and efficient swing-reducing systems are formed, several major problems in the field of navigation ships are solved, balance stability and safety of aircrafts and spacecraft in the field of the ships, the aircraft carriers, the submarines or aerospace are improved, capability and confidence of human beings in control of offshore or aerial activities are greatly improved, swing reduction is changed into swing stop, and the aircrafts never lose their balance and fall down.

A floating latticework is suitable for a latticework, a truss-frame structure and a net-shell structure over water. The floating latticework is the combination of a latticework (1) and a floating structure (2), or members of the latticework (1) in themselves are able to float. The floating structure (2) makes the latticework (1) floated over water, the surface of upper chords of which is in form of a platy structure or covered and fixed with a platy structure, as a plane used for loading. There is an advantage that the space-structure floating body is less influenced by wind and wave, which go through its space. A ship structure and a cofferdam structure are parallel solutions with the above solution. Their skeletons are net-shell structure, wherein they are provided with high structural strength.

The invention discloses an air vehicle take-off and landing platform capable of automatically keeping horizontal and to be of the adjusted height. The air vehicle take-off and landing platform comprises a movable platform body, a take-off and landing platform body and a control system. A gyro automatic control module is arranged in the control system. The take-off and landing platform body is installed on a front-and-rear oblique adjusting motor which is installed on a left-and-right oblique adjusting motor. The left-and-right oblique adjusting motor is installed on a lifting platform body which is installed on the movable platform body through an air pressure lifting rod. A height inductive device and the gyro automatic control module are installed on the take-off and landing platform body. According to the air vehicle take-off and landing platform capable of automatically keeping horizontal and to be of the adjusted height, the take-off and landing platform body is installed on the two adjusting motors, postures in different directions are adjusted through the two motors or two or more motors, and the condition that the take-off and landing platform body keeps in a horizontal state all the time is achieved, the take-off and landing platform body can automatically keep in fixed altitude through the air pressure lifting rod, and thus it can be guaranteed that an air vehicle can normally take off or land even under a complex meteorological condition.