Patents by Inventor Dan Bugajski

Dan Bugajski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and systems for controlling multi-body vehicles with fuel slosh
    Patent number: 7580778
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling multi-body vehicles with fuel slosh are provided. In a method for stabilizing a vehicle with fuel slosh, a controller for a multi-body assembly is formed by selecting vehicle configuration and velocity as states of a rigid body. Equations of motion are written for the multi-body assembly, and velocity states are determined that are unactuated. A decoupling transformation is defined from the unactuated velocity states. The equations of motion are transformed using the decoupling transformation such that unactuated states are decoupled from actuated states. A slosh state estimator is coupled to the controller such that it is in operative communication with an input to the controller and an output from the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Kailash Krishnaswamy, Dan Bugajski