Patents by Inventor William MacKunis

William MacKunis 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).

  • System and method for robust nonlinear regulation control of unmanned aerial vehicles synthetic jet actuators
    Patent number: 9625913
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided with a plurality of synthetic jet actuators and a nonlinear robust controller. The controller compensates for uncertainty in a mathematic model that describes the function of the synthetic jet actuators. Compensation is provided by the use of constant feedforward best guess estimates that eliminate the need for more highly computationally burdensome approaches such as the use of time-varying adaptive parameter estimation algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir V. Golubev, William MacKunis
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBUST NONLINEAR REGULATION CONTROL OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES SYNTETIC JET ACTUATORS
    Publication number: 20160209850
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided with a plurality of synthetic jet actuators and a nonlinear robust controller. The controller compensates for uncertainty in a mathematic model that describes the function of the synthetic jet actuators. Compensation is provided by the use of constant feedforward best guess estimates that eliminate the need for more highly computationally burdensome approaches such as the use of time-varying adaptive parameter estimation algorithms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Vladimir V. Golubev, William MacKunis