67 results about "Remotely piloted vehicle" patented technology

A collision sense and avoidance system and method and an aircraft, such as an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and / or Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV), including the collision sense and avoidance system. The collision sense and avoidance system includes an image interrogator identifies potential collision threats to the aircraft and provides maneuvers to avoid any identified threat. Motion sensors (e.g., imaging and / or infrared sensors) provide image frames of the surroundings to a clutter suppression and target detection unit that detects local targets moving in the frames. A Line Of Sight (LOS), multi-target tracking unit, tracks detected local targets and maintains a track history in LOS coordinates for each detected local target. A threat assessment unit determines whether any tracked local target poses a collision threat. An avoidance maneuver unit provides flight control and guidance with a maneuver to avoid any identified said collision threat.

A system and method for safely flying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), or remotely piloted vehicle (RPV) in civilian airspace uses a remotely located pilot to control the aircraft using a synthetic vision system during at least selected phases of the flight such as during take-offs and landings.

The invention discloses a test method for a remotely piloted vehicle (PRV). Constitution of a remotely piloted vehicle test field, a test system apparatus and a test method are comprised. The test field comprises a super highway, an urban road, a rural road and a special road. The test system apparatus comprises a RTK (real time kinematic) control system, a vehicle driving image acquisition system, a data processing device, etc. According to the test method, the RTK (real time kinematic) control system is utilized to record three-dimensional coordinates of the tested vehicle in real time, and the coordinates of the tested vehicle are compared with coordinates of a digitized three-dimensional test field to draft a tested vehicle running path diagram; data such as a deviation value and driving speed between the tested vehicle running path and a predicted path and vehicle running speed are calculated; and through vehicle running image acquisition systems installed at test points, external vehicle running states and operation behaviors of the tested vehicle in different traffic environments are recorded; and finally, results tested at each test point is compared with a test standard to determine whether the test result is qualified and thus a test report forms.

A framework for combining a weather risk analysis with appropriate operational rules includes a data initialization component, a rules processing component, and one or more weather risk analysis and assessment tools to evaluate a flight condition. The framework applies current, historical, predicted and forecasted weather data to the one or more operational rules governing a mission, a payload, a flight plan, a craft type, and a location of the mission for aircraft such as an unmanned aerial vehicle or remotely-piloted vehicle, and generates advisories based on the evaluation of flight conditions such as a mission compliance status, instructions for operation of unmanned aircraft, and management advisories. The flight condition advisories include either a “fly” advisory or a “no-fly” advisory, and the framework may also provide a mission prioritization and optimization system.

The invention relates to a road and obstacle detecting method based on remotely piloted vehicles. The method includes adopting a four-wire laser radar as a distance sensor and calculating slope information of roads in a driving area according to the relative position correspondence of pavement data points on different scanning layers; fitting left and right road edges by the COBWEB algorithm and the least square fit improved on the basis of Euclidean distance according to characteristics of road edge data points, enhancing anti-jamming capability, accuracy and stability of road edge detection; applying DST (Dempster-Shafer theory) evidence theory to establish a raster map for the environment ahead of the remotely piloted vehicles, and estimating positions of each raster before integrating prior- and posterior-frame maps. Consequently, the problem of integration of prior and posterior raster cells in the local map is solved. Finally, dynamic faults can be detected by means of conflict coefficient in a driving area, and the dynamical obstacles can be clustered and information thereof can be extracted by the improved eight-neighborhood zone marker algorithm. The road and obstacle detecting method can stably and accurately detect road and obstacle information.

The invention relates to a guide traffic marking identification system and a guide traffic marking identification method in a municipal environment, in order to realize that a remotely piloted vehicle actively cognizes a road surface guide identifier. The guide traffic marking identification system provided by the invention comprises an image acquisition unit, a guide traffic marking extracting unit, a database unit, a guide traffic marking identification unit and a vehicle-mounted control unit, wherein the image acquisition unit acquires image information shot on a road; the guide traffic marking extracting unit extracts guide traffic marking identifiers from the images acquired by the image acquisition unit; the database unit stores identifiers for guiding the traffic markings; the guide traffic marking patterns extracted by the guide traffic marking identification unit are compared with the guide traffic marking identifiers of the database unit, and the identifying results of the patterns are transmitted to the vehicle-mounted control unit; and the vehicle-mounted control unit sends a vehicle driving instruction according to the identifying result of the guide traffic marking identifying unit. According to the system and the method, the unmanned vehicle can initiatively cognize the road surface identifiers, feature dimensions can be reduced by an independent two-dimension component analysis method, and the categories of traffic markings can be classified by a nearest classifier; and the feature dimension obtained by the method is low, and the classifying accuracy is high.

Communication systems and apparatus to allow a user to perceive the relative spatial location or present position of other elements of interest in a control space, such as the location of a speaker participating in a telephone conference or that of an aircraft carrier to a remotely piloted vehicle on final approach. The system inserts synthetic sound cues into the communication to the user that represent the relative postion(s). In one embodiment, the user will perceive the communication as though it were communicated through free space to the user from the relative position of the represented source, so that, for example, the squad leader will perceive his wingman to be at his immediate left. Methods of conveying relative position sound cues are also provided.

The invention relates to a remote control flying machine, in particular a remote control ultralight helicopter, with at least one rotor blade (104), the pitch (alpha) of which may be adjusted. According to the invention, the adjustment of the pitch (alpha) of the at least one rotor blade is achieved by means of a force, in particular a torsion force directly applied to the rotation axis of the rotor blade. Said force is generated by a magnetic field, variable by the electrical control of at least one coil (196) which is not part of an electric motor.

The invention provides a wearable rotor craft which comprises a ringbody and a craft main body, wherein the ring body can be worn on a hand of a wearer and is of an annular structure enclosed by a hollow storage device and an arc annulus with two ends connected with the storage device. A; a sensor assembly is arranged on the annulus. T; the craft main body can be completely stored in athe storage device. The wearable rotor craft further comprises a control module arranged on the ringbody, wherein the control ring can analyze a current gestureactions of the wearer by reading an output signals of the sensor assembly, and selectsacontrol orders matched with the gesture actions from pre-stored control orders so as to remotely control the craft main body to fly. The wearable rotor craft is small in size and convenient to carry. In addition, as the wearer can control the craft main bodyin a remote way through one hand or do other things while remotely controlling the craft main body, hands of the wearer are liberated, and the wearable rotor craft is more convenient to use.

An electronegativity membrane method dust collection air vehicle used for in-air haze removal for a regional atmosphere comprises a remotely piloted vehicle, a fixing support is arranged at the bottom of the remotely piloted vehicle, a membrane method haze removal agent tank, a material metering and feeding device, a membrane bubble fan and an electronegativity membrane bubble distributor are fixed to the fixing support, the material metering and feeding device is connected with the membrane method haze removal agent tank and the electronegativity membrane bubble distributor, and the membrane bubble fan is connected with the electronegativity membrane bubble distributor. The electronegativity membrane method dust collection air vehicle can effectively solve the dust and haze pollution problem of the regional atmosphere.

A system and a method for control of a wind turbine for prevention of collisions between the rotor and flying objects such as birds, bats, and remotely-piloted aircraft is disclosed. The position and velocity of one or more flying objects is measured. The probability of the positions of the objects when they pass through the surface swept by the rotor blades is estimated. Increasing or decreasing the speed of the wind turbine rotor is performed such that the probability of collision between the rotor blades and the one or more objects is reduced or minimized, while otherwise continuing power production as usual.

A remotely-piloted vehicle gravity center adjustment device is used for measuring and adjusting the gravity center of a remotely-piloted vehicle and comprises a support rod, two supporting frames and a control unit. The support rod comprises a sliding seat and a sliding table, the sliding seat is arranged along the support rod, the sliding table is movably arranged on the sliding seat, a pointing element is arranged on the sliding table, the support rod is additionally provided with a driving part, the driving part is coupled with the sliding seat or the sliding table and used for driving the sliding table to slide along the sliding seat, the two supporting frames are combined with two ends of the support rod respectively, a seat body and a bearing portion are arranged at two ends of each supporting frame respectively, each bearing portion is connected with a gravity sensor, and the control unit is respectively coupled with the driving part of the support rod and the gravity sensors of the two supporting frames.

The invention provides an ultra-high-speed cleaning device for a remotely piloted vehicle, which is characterized by comprising rotorcrafts and flexible cables or cloth straps, wherein each rotorcraft comprises a fuselage, a plurality of electric rotor wings, a flight status computer control system and a remote controller, and the flexible cables or cloth straps are suspended below the rotorcrafts. The rotorcrafts can be used to enter places where people are not convenient to enter. The flexible cables or cloth straps can shake under the fan effect of the rotor wings like a flag fluttering in the air, and the shake can generate smashing and sweeping effects on accumulated snow. Only by passing through a photovoltaic cell panel from east to west at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, 80% of accumulated snow with the thickness of 100 millimeters on the photovoltaic cell panel with the length of 1.2 meters in the south-north direction can be swept to interval passages in the south-north direction of the photovoltaic cell panel and / or the place below the photovoltaic cell panel, and thus the threat of the accumulated snow to the photovoltaic cell panel is relieved. By adopting an external power supply, the hang time of the remotely piloted vehicle can be greatly prolonged.

A system for automating the control of a Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV) includes a computer having a processor and a memory, a display operatively coupled to the computer and configured to display a future operating condition of the RPV and an input device operatively coupled to the computer. A predicted noodle tool is executed by the processor and configured to indicate a predicted future path of the RPV by generating a predicted noodle segment on the display. A directed noodle tool is executed by the processor to indicate a pilot-adjustable proposed future flight path of the RPV by generating a directed noodle segment on the display. Further, an input device mode selector is operatively coupled to the processor and configured to selectively map the input device to either manipulate a control surface of the RPV, or to manipulate the directed noodle segment.

The invention discloses a voice remote control system used for a helicopter type aircraft.An airborne flight control system comprises a first microcontroller, a posture instrument module, a motor drive module, a first wireless communication module, a first display module and an airborne power supply module.A ground voice remote control system comprises a second microcontroller, a voice recognition module, a second wireless communication module, a second display module and a ground power supply module.The voice recognition module is used for recognizing a non-specific human voice instruction and transmitting the human voice instruction to the aircraft through the second wireless communication module.The second wireless communication module is used for sending a voice recognition result to the aircraft and sending aircraft flight posture data back to the ground.The second display module is used for displaying postures of the aircraft.The ground power supply module supplies power supply voltage and current required by the ground voice remote control system.The invention further discloses the helicopter type aircraft.An ascending, descending and steering control algorithm is simple and easy to implement, the calculation quantity of the algorithm is small, and steering control is precise.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a parking control method, a parking server, a vehicle controller and a vehicle. The parking control method includes the following steps of obtaining point cloud data that are scanned by a laser radar and are located in a predetermined monitoring area by the parking server; calculating the distance from the vehicle traveling in the predetermined monitoring area to a target parking line according to the point cloud data by the parking server; sending a message containing the distance by the parking server; and using the vehicle controller to receive the message and controlling the vehicle to adjust the vehicle speed until stopping according to the distance. In the present invention, with the aid of the accurate ranging capability and fast processing speed of the laser radar, the vehicle can be controlled to decelerate step by step according to the distance from the vehicle to the target parking line, so as to realize the accuracy, stabilityand one-time accurate parking; and besides, the whole parking process is automatically completed instead of artificial command, and thus the method is suitable for the field of a remotely piloted vehicle.

A remotely-piloted vehicle and apparatus for measuring the gravity center of the wings of the remotely-piloted vehicle is disclosed to solve the problems of inconvenience for carrying around and use and complex structure of a conventional measuring remotely-piloted vehicle. The remotely-piloted vehicle and apparatus for measuring the gravity center of the wings of the remotely-piloted vehicle comprises a supporting rod which is arranged along the long axis direction and provided with a sliding base and a sliding bench, wherein the sliding base is arranged along the supporting rod, the sliding bench is movably arranged on the sliding base, and a directional element is arranged on the sliding bench. The remotely-piloted vehicle and apparatus for measuring the gravity center of the wings of the remotely-piloted vehicle further comprises a first support frame including a base body and two bearing portions which are movably arranged on the base body along a lateral axis direction, and aligned with each other along the lateral axis direction perpendicular to the long axis direction, wherein each bearing portion is provided with a gravity sensor. The remotely-piloted vehicle and apparatus for measuring the gravity center of the wings of the remotely-piloted vehicle further comprises a second support frame including a bearing portion which is provided with a gravity sensor.

The invention discloses a gasoline-engine-driven multi-rotor fire-extinguishing life-saving manned aircraft and belongs to the field of special aircrafts. The gasoline-engine-driven multi-rotor fire-extinguishing life-saving manned aircraft high in bearing capacity and long in duration is provided and carries a cockpit; an ejection seat, an operating bar and a display screen are fitted in the cockpit; an ejection parachute is fitted to the back of the ejection seat; the aircraft herein is a manned aircraft and remote-control aircraft; the aircraft herein is a multifunctional aircraft having anelectric block, a remote-control cable propeller and a life jacket or basket life stretcher is suitable for carrying out high-rise building or field lifesaving; with a fire-extinguishing rocket launcher and a fire-extinguishing rocket projectile, the aircraft herein is suitable for high-rise building fire extinguishing; a cargo hold provided herein allows cargoes to be conveyed; special instruments and devices are carried, so that the aircraft herein is available for high-rise building fire extinguishing and lifesaving, field search and lifesaving, goods air transportation and dropping, aerial patrolling and monitoring, pesticide spraying, and other special tasks.

The invention provides a game device with a remotely-piloted vehicle attack set. The game device comprises an aircraft, an airborne throwing-in system, a remote controller, the set and a control system. The set comprises a prop placing sand table and props arranged on the ground, a wall space and the prop placing sand table. The aircraft is an electric multi-shaft aircraft with screw propeller protection rings, the airborne throwing-in system and a camera lens are assembled on the aircraft, and the airborne throwing-in system is a dismountable device and used for throwing single shot small sealing balls. Holes for placement of the props are formed in the surface of the prop placing sand table, and the control system is arranged in the holes. When the small sealing balls thrown by the aircraft hit the prop placing sand table, a vibration sensor is triggered and transmits detected impact force to a control center. The control center controls a transmission mechanism to change positions of the props in the set at fixed time, grading is carried out on simulated attack according to the impact force, and manufactured audios and videos are played. The game device is strong in interestingness, reduces operative difficulty, and avoids loss of belongings.

The invention relates to a unilateral-control between-high-rise both-way traction rope system, belongs to the field of mechanical control and safety engineering projects and aims at achieving the technical purpose that professionals erect and operate the traction rope system between an stricken high-rise and a safety high-rise on the safety high-rise in an overall unilateral manner. The traction rope system mainly comprises a traction rope, traction rope hooks, a traction ring, both-way tractors, a pulley support with an anchor hook, a fixing base frame of the pulley support and a remotely-piloted vehicle. Firstly, the traction rope on the safety building is arranged on the pulley support with the anchor hook in a sleeving manner, then the remotely-piloted vehicle is controlled to convey and throw the pulley support to the fixing base frame of the stricken high-rise, the anchor hook is firmly clamped on the fixing base frame, and accordingly the system erected in a unilateral manner is finished. The both-way tractors on the safety between-high-rise are used, and the traction rope system can be operated unilaterally. Correctness and reliability in the erecting process of the system can be effectively guaranteed, a person does not need to worry about the traction power source failure of the stricken high-rise, and the problems of disorder and low efficiency of coordinated matching of both sides are solved.

The invention discloses a wheel mechanism for testing a trolley chassis of a remotely piloted vehicle. The wheel mechanism is provided with a wheel support, a first cross rod and a second cross rod, wherein the first cross rod and the second cross rod are arranged between the two sides of the wheel support and parallel to each other. The wheel mechanism is provided with at least two driving wheel units and at least one universal wheel unit. Each driving wheel unit is provided with a driving wheel and a driving motor assembly. One side of each driving motor assembly is connected with the wheel support through a first rotating assembly, and the other side of each driving motor assembly is connected with the first cross rod through a first spring assembly. Each universal wheel unit is provided with a universal wheel, a second rotating assembly and a second spring assembly. When the wheel mechanism suffers from huge flashy loads, four wheels can automatically shrink inwards, high loads are borne by a chassis body mechanism, losses of vulnerable parts of the wheel mechanism are reduced accordingly, and the trolley chassis of the remotely piloted vehicle is tested more economically in a more environment-friendly mode.

The invention discloses a navigation type device for rescuing and salvaging personnel falling into the sea. The device comprises a fixing rope, a rescue rope and a remotely pilot vehicle, wherein the fixing rope and the rescue rope are connected; a connecting part of the fixing rope and the rescue rope is fixed on the remotely pilot vehicle; and the remotely pilot vehicle drives the rescue rope to fly to a preset position. The navigation type device for rescuing and salvaging the personnel falling into the sea has the advantages that by controlling the flying direction of the remotely pilot vehicle, the goal of accurately guiding the rescue rope to fly to the located position of the personnel falling into the sea to implement the rescue is achieved; further through the arrangement of a metal ring and an electromagnet, the connection requirement of the fixing rope and the rescue rope can be met; the fast, convenient and controllable connection / disconnection with / from the remotely pilot vehicle can be realized; through the cooperation of the electromagnet and the metal ring, the remotely pilot vehicle can be automatically disengaged from the metal ring and make a return voyage after completing the navigation action; and the interference, damage or injury caused in the subsequent further rescue process is avoided.

The invention discloses a method for fertilizing hybrid paddy rice for seed production by applying a multi-rotor-wing remotely piloted vehicle. The method applies the multi-rotor-wing remotely piloted vehicle for hedgehopping to agitate air above a field parcel for the seed production of the hybrid paddy rice, and a formed local low-energy air eddy helps paternal pollens to be blown off among maternal rows, and is convenient for maternal stigmas to accept more paternal pollens, so that an outcrossing setting percentage can be increased by 1.2-2.5%. The multi-rotor-wing remotely piloted vehicle in the method for fertilizing the hybrid paddy rice for the seed production by applying the multi-rotor-wing remotely piloted vehicle continuously flies back and forth in a transverse W shape as a flight path relative to the field parcel for the seed production of the hybrid paddy rice, and repeatedly flies for 3-6 times above a same field parcel at time intervals of 10-20 minutes each time and at flight heights of 2-8 meters. As an area, which is influenced by the eddy generated by the hedgehopping of the multi-rotor-wing remotely piloted vehicle, of a ground target field parcel for the seed production of the hybrid paddy rice is large, parental row ratios are increased to 3:(24-42); the work efficiency of vast continuous fertilization is 10-15 times higher than that of manual flower pulling fertilization; thus, the labor cost is saved massively. The method for fertilizing the hybrid paddy rice for the seed production by applying the multi-rotor-wing remotely piloted vehicle is particularly suitable for being used by an enterprise carrying out large-scale seed production.

The embodiment of the invention provides a remote-controlled aircraft and a control method thereof. The remote-controlled aircraft includes: a signal receiving unit for receiving a control signal, the control signal at least including a first row vector, a second row vector and a third row vector; A row of vectors, a second row of vectors and a third row of vectors control the movement of the remote control aircraft on the first dimension, the second dimension and the third dimension; wherein, the first row of vectors, the second row of vectors and the third row of the control signal The three row vectors respectively correspond to the first single-degree-of-freedom action, the second single-degree-of-freedom action and the third single-degree-of-freedom action in the gesture actions of the user of the remote control aircraft, and, the gesture action is the first single-degree-of-freedom action, the second single-degree-of-freedom action A linear combination of two single-degree-of-freedom motions and a third single-degree-of-freedom motion. Through the remote-controlled aircraft and the control method thereof according to the embodiments of the present invention, the motion control of the remote-controlled aircraft can be performed through user gestures, thereby improving the accuracy and convenience of control.

The present invention discloses a cooperative dispatching system applied to an unpiloted instructional car in a driving school. The system comprises remotely piloted vehicle terminals, a cloud database server, a dispatching server and an upper computer, the dispatching server comprises a data calculation module and a dispatching algorithm module, data output ends of the remotely piloted vehicle terminals are connected with a data input end of the cloud database server, a data output end of the cloud database server is connected with an input end of the dispatching server, an output end of thedispatching server is connected with an input end of the upper computer, and a control output end of the upper computer is connected with control input ends of the remotely piloted vehicle terminals.The cooperative dispatching system applied to the unpiloted instructional car in the driving school reduces the students' waiting time, reasonably plans paths, completely replace manual coaches, improves the training efficiency and fully utilizes the training resources of the driving school.