Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing self-contained guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) functions for a vehicle moving through an environment on or near the ground, in the air or in space without externally provided information are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention includes a Heading Sensor (36), an Absolute Location Sensor (38), a timer (40), a Range Doppler Processor (42), a Navigation Reference Sensor (44), an Area Range and a Velocity Sensor (46) which provide enhanced navigation information about a universal reference frame (22) and one or more targets (20).
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 28, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 2, 2021
Assignee:
Psionic, LLC
Inventors:
Stephen Parker Sandford, Diego Fernando Pierrottet
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing self-contained guidance, navigation, and control (GN&C) functions for a vehicle moving through an environment on or near the ground, in the air or in space without externally provided information are disclosed. More particularly, one embodiment of the present invention includes a Heading Sensor (36), an Absolute Location Sensor (38), a timer (40), a Range Doppler Processor (42), a Navigation Reference Sensor (44), an Area Range and a Velocity Sensor (46) which provide enhanced navigation information about a universal reference frame (22) and one or more targets (20).
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 23, 2019
Publication date:
October 29, 2020
Applicant:
Psionic, LLC
Inventors:
Stephen Parker Sandford, Diego Fernando Pierrottet, Thomas Nello Giaccherini