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Modeling and Control of a New Deformable Copter-Powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)
This invention contains motion and control models for a deformable copter-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (DCU). These models expand a drone’s capabilities of safe and aggressive deformation in constrained environments and enable tracking control that is decomposed into force and altitude controls and presented as quadratic programming problems....
Published: 5/2/2024
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Inventor(s): Hossein Rastgoftar
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering
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Copter-Based Configurable UAV
This technology is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) consisting of multiple, interconnected quadcopters, which can fly in custom formations to optimize the control of the vehicle and recover from partial failures. The design allows for on-the-fly reconfiguration of the UAV, enabling robust operation in adverse weather conditions and changing shape to...
Published: 2/1/2024
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Inventor(s): Hossein Rastgoftar
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone
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Highly Transmissive Infrared Polymer Micro Optical Lenses and Arrays
Polymeric microscale lenses, which are highly transmissive for infrared wavelengths, can be fabricated using photolithography. Arrays of lenses may be mass produced and incorporated into optical-electronic systems.
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Conventionally, lenses for use in infrared imaging have been made from inorganic materials due to their superior optical properties...
Published: 3/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Abhinav Nishant, Tristan Kleine, Nicholas Lyons, Kyungjo Kim
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Optical, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > RFID, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > MEMS & Nanotechnology, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Photonics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Vehicle Control, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Materials & Fabrication, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Telecommunications > Electro-Optic Devices, Technology Classifications > Materials > Chemicals, Technology Classifications > Materials > Coatings, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers
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LIDAR Operating Software for Precise Measurements
This product is a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) attachment for any compatible drone that will have the ability to make 3-dimensional maps at a high resolution. It is a very low-cost product compared to others on the market. The data points are given in LAS format and are passed through an algorithm using a ground-up perspective to analyze the...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Isaak Willett, Richard Herriman, Daniel Inigo Gamiz
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Agricultural Engineering, Technology Classifications > Agriculture & Horticulture > Crop Improvement, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone
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Automotive Radar Interference Mitigation Using Adaptive Noise Canceller
This technology is a new method for mitigating interference in automotive radar systems. It uses an adaptive noise canceler applied on the frequency-domain data of automotive radar. The method has an ideal performance and can be applied to almost all the existing automotive radars. New method using adaptive filtering only needs signal processing and...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Siyang Cao, Feng Jin
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Electronics > Computer Hardware, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone
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Throttling, Descent and Landing of a Projectile Using Spin-Stabilization and Torque-Free Precession
This invention is a method for landing a projectile using solid rockets for a soft-landing onto the bottom surface of pits on the Moon, or other difficult surfaces. The method also includes spin stabilization to ensure the projectile stays oriented for a secure landing. The invention is intended to be used by rovers on the Moon and Mars for discovering....
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Jekan Thangavelautham, Steven Morad, Leonard Vance, Thomas Dailey
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aerospace Engineering, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Wireless, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone
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Chalcogenide Hybrid Inorganic/Organic Polymers (CHIPs) Using Cyclic Olefinic Comonomers
This invention is an approach to creating specific materials that are transparent to Long Wave Infrared. The proposed materials may be used as a matrix for incorporating IR transparent nanoparticles to form infrared transparent CHIP nanoparticle material. This new process allows for the creation of new copolymers with improved thermomechanical properties...
Published: 3/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Tristan Kleine, Richard Glass, Dennis Lichtenberger, Meghan O'Brien Hamilton
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Robotics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing, Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers
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Novel Polymers for Mid-and Long-Wave Infrared Imaging
This invention is an approach to creating specific materials that are transparent to Long Wave Infrared. The proposed materials may be used as a matrix for incorporating IR transparent nanoparticles to form infrared transparent CHIP nanoparticle material. This new process allows for the creation of new copolymers with improved thermomechanical properties...
Published: 3/12/2024
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Inventor(s): Dong-Chul Pyun, Robert Norwood, Richard Glass
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Materials > Polymers, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Safety Systems/Driver Enhancements, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Vehicle Control, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Telematics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Devices & Instrumentation > Robotics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection > Remote Sensing, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Lens & System Design
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Rotationally Shift Invariant And Multi-Layered Microlens Array
This invention describes a nontraditional use of the Gabor Superlens and is a configuration of multiple microlens array structures. The rotationally shift invariant and multiple microlens array system provides full-field of view imaging wherein all of the incoming light (i.e., light from all directions), in a solid angle of 4pi steradians, is focused...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Yuzuru Takashima, Brandon Hellman, Joshua Rodriguez
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Sensors and Detection
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Connected Vehicle Parking Access System (CVPASS)
With the potential to be universal, the Connected Vehicle Parking Access System (CVPASS) is an on-board unit, or vehicle, with the ability to communicate wirelessly to infrastructure for parking, toll roads, etc. System can be used for parking lots and areas that have been previously approved and programmed into the device by the infrastructure’s...
Published: 4/3/2023
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Inventor(s): Kenneth Head
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Communications & Networking > Wireless, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Telematics, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Vehicle Control, Technology Classifications > Engineering & Physical Sciences > Transportation & Automotive > Autonomous/Intelligent Vehicle Compone
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