31 results about "Sense and avoid" patented technology

An apparatus carried by an unmanned vehicle to provide passive sensing and facilitate avoiding airborne aerial obstacles is provided. The apparatus can include at least one, but typically multiple optical systems installed, for example, in the nose of the aerial vehicle to passively sense and determine a range, direction, and velocity of the airborne obstacles to allow the aerial vehicle to avoid the airborne obstacles. The typical optical system includes at least one focal plane array or other imaging device configured to receive a wide field of view and at least one focal plane array or other imaging device configured to receive a steerable narrow field of view within the wide field of view to allow concentrated determination of the range, direction, and/or velocity of obstacles detected by the wide field of view imaging devices.

A system, method and computer program product provides for avoiding collision between a vehicle and a target object. Pluralities of images from the target object are sensed. Pluralities of polarized images are generated from the sensed images. One or more composite images are calculated from the two or more polarized images by performing an algebraic manipulation between the two or more polarized images. The target object is tracked based on composite images. A set of evasive maneuver instructions are established for the respective hazard associated with the target object.

The present invention is a Sense-and-Avoid Display System (SAVDS) that integrates data from a ground-based short-range tracking radar with positional data from a global positioning system (GPS) element in the flight management autopilot system in the unmanned aerial vehicle. Using a high-resolution display, the SAVDS shows the GPS location of the unmanned aerial vehicle in relation to other aircraft operating in the same airspace. With the SAVDS co-located on the same tabletop as the computer controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle, the SAVDS operator can instruct the unmanned aerial vehicle pilot to change the heading of the vehicle until any potential aircraft conflict is abated. Ground-based radar data and GPS data are integrated and displayed with georeferenced base maps that provide collision avoidance information, and provide a means for tracking the UAV relative to geographic waypoints.

A sense-and-avoid system, for an unmanned air vehicle (UAV), configured to detect and estimate the relative position and velocity of a nearby object and to enable determination whether the nearby object poses a collision threat to the UAV. In one embodiment, the sense-and-avoid system is provided with a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) synthesizer adapted to generate at least one swept-frequency waveform. The sense-and-avoid system may also be included with an RF subassembly. In some embodiments, the RF subassembly may include at least one transmit antenna adapted to transmit the at least one swept-frequency waveform. The at last one swept-frequency waveform may illuminate the nearby object. The sense-and-avoid system may be further provided with a plurality of receive antennas adapted to receive an echo signal from the nearby object. In some embodiments, the echo signal results from the illumination of the nearby object by the swept-frequency waveform. Additionally, the sense-and-avoid system may be provided with a signal processor configured to analyze the received echo signal and to derive object data for the nearby object. The object data may include at least range, radial velocity, and two-dimensional angle of arrival.

The invention discloses a multiple-rotor-wing unmanned aerial vehicle sensing and avoiding system which comprises a barrier avoiding module. The output end of the barrier avoiding module is connected with a flight control module, the input end of the barrier avoiding module is further connected with a navigation module, the barrier avoiding module is further connected with an ADS-B perception module for data receiving and sending, the ADS-B perception module comprises an ADS-B OUT transmitting module and an ADS-B IN receiving module, the ADS-B OUT transmitting module is connected with a transmitting antenna, and the ADS-B IN receiving module is connected with a receiving antenna. The invention further discloses an avoiding method which simplifies spatial perception and barrier avoiding complexity of an unmanned aerial vehicle, can guarantee safe space flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle without dependence on an air control system, and is suitable for the low-flying multiple-rotor-wing unmanned aerial vehicle sensing and avoiding system.

An airborne radar device having a given angular coverage in elevation and in azimuth includes a transmit system, a receive system and processing means for carrying out target detection and location measurements. The transmit system includes: a transmit antenna made up of at least a first linear array of radiating elements focusing a transmit beam, said arrays being approximately parallel to one another; at least one waveform generator; means for amplifying the transmit signals produced by the waveform generator or generators; and means for controlling the transmit signals produced by the waveform generator or generators, said control means feeding each radiating element with a transmit signal. The radiating elements being controlled for simultaneously carrying out electronic scanning of the transmit beam in elevation and for coloured transmission in elevation.

The invention discloses an air-ground coordination unmanned aerial vehicle sensing and avoiding system. The air-ground coordination unmanned aerial vehicle sensing and avoiding system comprises a visual sensing system, an image processing system and a flight control system which are arranged on an airplane. The visual sensing system is used for collecting image information of a target, and then transmitting the image information to the image processing system. The image processing system outputs the image information of the target in two paths. In one path, unprocessed image information is directly transmitted out to a ground system; in the other path, processed target waypoint information is transmitted to the flight control system, and the flight control system interacts with the ground system. The invention further provides an air-ground coordination unmanned aerial vehicle sensing and avoiding method. The uncertainty caused by pure-ground-control unmanned aerial vehicle flight trajectory avoiding is avoided, and the uncertainty caused when the pure unmanned aerial vehicle independently avoids barriers in air is avoided.

A radar device includes an antenna having at least two linear arrays of radiating elements being orthogonal to one another, a first array being used to focus a transmission beam in a first plane and a second beam being used to focus a reception beam in a second plane, orthogonal to the first plane. The focussing of the beam is obtained in the first plane by coloured emission followed by a reception beam formation by computation, and in that the focussing of the beam is obtained in the second plane using reception beam formation by computation. The coloured emission is carried out by combining antenna transmission sub-arrays in such a manner as to form a sum channel and a difference on reception channel according to the monopulse technique.

Systems and methods for navigating an unmanned aerial vehicle are provided. The method includes detecting a possible obstacle. The method includes determining a predicted path for the possible obstacle. The method includes determining that the possible obstacle will cause a collision with the unmanned aerial vehicle based on the predicted path. The method includes determining when the possible obstacle is cooperative. The method includes controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to perform an avoidance maneuver when the possible obstacle is not cooperative. The method includes determining whether to initiate communications with the possible obstacle when the possible obstacle is cooperative.

The invention provides a hand motion three-dimensional simulation method based on dual quaternion. The hand motion three-dimensional simulation method comprises the following steps of: (1) inputting a virtual hand grid model for modeling and a motion skeleton model corresponding to the virtual hand grid model; (2) determining an initial position of each vertex in the virtual hand grid model and normal of each vertex; (3) calculating dual quaternion of each joint point in the motion skeleton model; (4) aiming at each vertex in the virtual hand grid model, searching the dual quaternion corresponding to the skeleton which is bound with each vertex and assigning respective weight value, and then calculating the dual quaternion after linear mixture; (5) unitizing the double quaternion after linear mixture; and (6) calculating vertex positions and normals after deformation of all the vertices for hand three-dimensional simulation. The hand motion three-dimensional simulation method recalculates the positions and normals after the deformation of the vertices for hand three-dimensional simulation by calculating and unitizing the double quaternion after the linear mixture so as to enable a virtual hand to have stronger motion and visual reality sense and avoid the phenomena such as wrapping with candy wrappers and collapse.

The embodiment of the present invention provides a method and system for calculating the capacity of a wind farm energy storage device. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a standard reference distribution function and all approximate reference distribution functions of the wind power output according to the historical data of wind power output of the wind farm; obtaining the KL distance between each approximate reference distribution function and the standard reference distribution function, and constituting an uncertain set composed of all the approximate reference distribution functions having KL distances not exceeding a preset KL distance; based on the uncertain set, establishing a distributed robust energy storage device planning model of the wind farm; acquiring the capacity of the energy storage device according to the distributed robust energy storage device planning model of the wind farm. The embodiment of the invention establishes the distributed robust energy storage device planning model. The distributed robust optimization does not require an accurate probability distribution function, so the result is more robust in the statistical sense and avoids a situation of putting a large quantity of resources to deal with an extreme scene with an extremely low probability, thereby achieving a low conservativeness.

The invention provides a mobile video monitoring system based on cognitive radio. The mobile video monitoring system comprises a control center and a mobile terminal. The control center is wirelessly communicated with the mobile terminal through an ISM frequency band. The control center is used for monitoring communication quality and determining whether spectrum sensing and channel switching need to be carried out or not according to the communication quality. If data transmission between the mobile terminal and the control center cannot be recovered through the channel switching, the data transmission of the mobile terminal is relayed through a relay robot. The invention further provides a mobile video monitoring method. According to the mobile video monitoring system and the method, the unfixed communication frequency band is adopted, and in the ISM frequency band, channel interference is automatically sensed and avoided, and the interference problem is solved. The wireless signal fading problem is solved through power control and relay transferring, and therefore the real-time performance and reliability of video transmission are guaranteed. The mobile video monitoring system and the method do not depend on the coverage of the commercial wireless network, and have actual application significance in video monitoring in the emergency environment, the severe environment and the unknown environment.

The invention discloses a single-stand-column double-shaft solar tracking device. The single-stand-column double-shaft solar tracking device comprises a base, a stand column, an adjustment rod, a first cross beam, a lug plate, a first hinge pin, a hinge support, a second hinge pin, a solar panel, a longitudinal beam, a pulley block, a second cross beam, a vertical arm, a cross arm, a main beam, a pulling spring, a steel wire rope, a limit switch, a limit block, a first bearing, a speed reducer, a second bearing, a first support, a bearing seat, a second support, driving shafts, pulleys and a fastening bolt. According to the single-stand-column double-shaft solar tracking device, the large transmission ratio is achieved by the adoption of the pulley system at a low cost, driving of the steel wire rope and automatic tracking of the solar azimuth are achieved by the adoption of the two main driving shafts, control over the tension of the steel wire rope is achieved by means of the pulling spring, overload protection of a system is achieved at a low cost according to the characteristic that the friction force between the steel wire rope and the driving shafts are limited, and strong wind can be sensed and avoided by the adoption of the limit block and the limit switch at a low cost. Manual tracking of the solar zenith angle which changes slowly is achieved by adjusting the adjustment rod manually at a low cost.

The invention discloses a method for alleviating vibration during dehydration of an impeller washing machine. When the washing machine is in the dehydration period, the dehydration step is divided into a first dehydration stage and a second dehydration stage, wherein when the first dehydration stage is finished, and before the second dehydration stage starts, the motor speed of a washing drum is reduced to 100rmp or below, then the weight of clothings in the washing machine is sensed with a weight sensor, and finally the second dehydration stage is started once again, so that various exceptional vibration situations which can occur during the dehydration stage can be effectively sensed and avoided.