Patents by Inventor Laurent BURLION

Laurent BURLION 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).

  • Method and system for automatic autonomous landing of an aircraft
    Patent number: 9939818
    Abstract: A system for automatic landing of an aircraft on a runway, including an onboard image capture system, image analyzer for detecting in an image a landing runway and determining characteristics of a segment connecting a planned point of impact on the runway and a vanishing point of the image, a measurement module for measuring observables in an inertial frame tied to the runway, on the basis of characteristics of the segment, the observables including a first observable, a second observable, and a third observable, an estimator for estimating longitudinal, lateral and vertical position deviations of aircraft position relative to point of impact from measurements of the first, second and third observables, and guidance for determining aircraft guidance orders from the longitudinal, lateral and vertical deviations and of the relative heading angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus Operations (S.A.S.)
    Inventors: Josep Boada-Bauxell, Victor Gibert, Laurent Burlion, Abdelhamid Chriette, Franck Plestan
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC AUTONOMOUS LANDING OF AN AIRCRAFT
    Publication number: 20160026189
    Abstract: A system for automatic landing of an aircraft on a runway, including an onboard image capture system, image analyzer for detecting in an image a landing runway and determining characteristics of a segment connecting a planned point of impact on the runway and a vanishing point of the image, a measurement module for measuring observables in an inertial frame tied to the runway, on the basis of characteristics of the segment, the observables including a first observable, a second observable, and a third observable, an estimator for estimating longitudinal, lateral and vertical position deviations of aircraft position relative to point of impact from measurements of the first, second and third observables, and guidance for determining aircraft guidance orders from the longitudinal, lateral and vertical deviations and of the relative heading angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Josep BOADA-BAUXELL, Victor GIBERT, Laurent BURLION, Abdelhamid CHRIETTE, Franck PLESTAN