Patents by Inventor Piero Miotto

Piero Miotto 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).

  • Load relief system for a launch vehicle
    Patent number: 6666410
    Abstract: A load relief system for a launch vehicle including a wind sensing system responsive to wind speed and direction at selected locations for providing an output of sensed wind speed and wind direction at the selected locations, a plant model responsive to the sensed wind speed and direction within a finite horizon, a current state of the launch vehicle, and control commands of the launch vehicle to predict the trajectory of the launch vehicle, an error circuit responsive to the predicted trajectory and a reference trajectory to produce a trajectory error, and an optimizer responsive to the trajectory error and configured to provide control commands to compensate for wind load over the finite horizon of the launch vehicle by reducing the total angle of attack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick Wall Boelitz, Leena Singh, Christopher Michael Gibson, Stephen Randolph Smith, Jr., Piero Miotto, Andrew Allen Martin
  • Load relief system for a launch vehicle
    Publication number: 20030150961
    Abstract: A load relief system for a launch vehicle including a wind sensing system responsive to wind speed and direction at selected locations for providing an output of sensed wind speed and wind direction at the selected locations, a plant model responsive to the sensed wind speed and direction within a finite horizon, a current state of the launch vehicle, and control commands of the launch vehicle to predict the trajectory of the launch vehicle, an error circuit responsive to the predicted trajectory and a reference trajectory to produce a trajectory error, and an optimizer-responsive to the trajectory error and configured to provide control commands to compensate for wind load over the finite horizon of the launch vehicle by reducing the total angle of attack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventors: Frederick Wall Boelitz, Leena Singh, Christopher Michael Gibson, Stephen Randolph Smith, Piero Miotto, Andrew Allen Martin