Patents by Inventor Paulo Jorge Coelho Ramalho OLIVEIRA

Paulo Jorge Coelho Ramalho OLIVEIRA 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).

  • Publication number: 20230271727
    Abstract: Disclosed are an attitude estimation method, a terminal, a system and a computer-readable storage medium. For the problem of attitude and sensor bias estimation, a cascade solution method is provided. The first part of the cascade is a Kalman filter applied to an LTV system, and the second part of the cascade is a nonlinear attitude observer built in SO(3). In the estimation process, only one constant inertial reference vector needs to be measured explicitly in body-fixed coordinates, and the complexity of the attitude estimation algorithm is greatly simplified by exploiting the geometric relationship between the inertial reference vector and the Earth angular velocity vector. At the same time, the time-varying characteristics of the implemented Kalman filter help to avoid the tedious empirical gain adjustment process that often relies on sets of piecewise constant gains, to improve the convergence speed of the algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicants: University of Macau, Instituto Superior Técnico
    Inventors: Joel Oliveira REIS, Pedro Tiago Martins BATISTA, Carlos Jorge Ferreira SILVESTRE, Paulo Jorge Coelho Ramalho OLIVEIRA