Patents by Inventor Xianbin Cao

Xianbin Cao 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).

  • Patent number: 11727812
    Abstract: A computer-based airplane flight path planning method based on the pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO) algorithm includes steps of establishing an uncertainty prediction model, determining the path to be optimized, and obtaining an optimal path using the PIO algorithm for a flight controller onboard to execute. The PIO algorithm treats a pigeon flock as a scale-free network, applies map and compass operators to the scale-free network, and performs landmark operations to obtain the optimal path. The device that performs the path planning includes an access module for obtaining the regional environment information and a flight controller onboard the airplane. The flight controller includes a building module for setting up the trajectory prediction model including uncertainties; a determining module to determine the trajectories which need optimization; an optimization module, which uses the PIO algorithm to optimize the flight path; and a computer memory module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Jintong Zhang, Haichao An, Yumeng Li, Xi Zhu
  • Patent number: 11656637
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a cooperative path planning method and device for automatic control aerocraft and aerocraft system. The method includes: determining the current evaluation index of each selected point according to its current position, the target position of the aerocraft and the position of obstacles in the selected area; updating the adjustment displacement of each selected point according to its adjustment displacement, current position and historical optimal position, as well as the global optimal position; updating the current position of each selected point according to its current position and the updated adjustment displacement; after the current position is updated for a set number of times, selecting the position corresponding to the optimal evaluation index from the current positions and global optimal position of all selected points as the next waypoint of the aerocraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Liang Xu
  • Publication number: 20230048523
    Abstract: An atmospheric parameter measuring device includes a cone top, a balance rod an upper propeller, a lower propeller, a transmission module, an accelerating module, a DC generator, an object-carrying shell, an inertial generation module, a wireless energy-carrying communication module, a sensor carrier, a base, an airbag and a low-power-consumption sensor. Electric energy can generate by using four methods of wind energy, microwave, inertia and solar energy, so the energy supply for the carried low-power-consumption sensor can be ensured and the measuring device can generate electric energy at day and night to ensure the working state of the carried low-power-consumption sensor and measure the atmospheric temperature, humidity, wind speed, intensity of pressure and cloud and water grain shape parameters at the current position conveniently; the measuring device can float in the air by the lift force provided by the rotation of the two propellers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Dezhi ZHENG, Dapeng LI, Shuai WANG, Xianbin CAO
  • Patent number: 11474541
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a dynamic recovery method and system for UAVs and storage medium. On the basis of obtaining the environmental information of UAVs, combined with different factors such as the following task quantity of each UAV, the distance from the current position of each UAV to the recovery point, current performance of each UAV, total cost function is constructed, and optimization is carried out through improved particle swarm optimization algorithm. Then on the premise of the lowest recovery cost, the priority of each UAV is obtained. For the ordered UAV, the route to the recovery point is determined. At the same time, it is necessary to consider conflict resolution of UAVs when encountering obstacles in the flight process, as well as the possible failure in line recovery. At this time, it is necessary to reorder some hovering UAVs to ensure flight safety of UAVs and robustness of the algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Lei Zheng, Liang Xu, Yakun Zhao
  • Patent number: 11436502
    Abstract: A sector situation (SS) evaluation framework is based on knowledge transfer and is specifically applicable for small-training-sample environment. The SS evaluation framework is able to effectively mine knowledge hidden within the samples of both target and non-target sectors, and properly handle the integration between the knowledge derived from different sectors. This framework includes three main steps: (1) sufficiently mine the knowledge within the samples of the target sector using the strategies of multi-factor subset generation and multi-base evaluator construction, and build target base evaluators; (2) precisely learn the knowledge in the samples of the non-target sectors using similar strategies for the target sector, together with a sample transformation, and build non-target base evaluators; and (3) efficiently integrate the target and non-target base evaluators based on evaluation confidence analysis of those base evaluators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Xi Zhu, Yumeng Li
  • Patent number: 11333749
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining a motion trajectory of a target. The method includes: acquiring a transmitted signal, a first echo signal, and a second echo signal of a frequency modulated continuous wave radar; performing a coherent operation on the transmitted signal and the first echo signal, to determine a beat signal therebetween; performing a two-dimensional fast Fourier transform on the beat signal to determine an initial position of the target; performing a short-time Fourier transform on the beat signal to determine a radial velocity of the target; calculating a difference frequency signal between the first and second echo signals; determining a tangential velocity of the target according to the difference frequency signal; inputting the initial position, the radial velocity, and the tangential velocity to a Kalman filter, and receiving a motion trajectory of the target output by the Kalman filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xiangrong Wang, Huaiyuan Liang, Pengcheng Wang, Xianbin Cao
  • Publication number: 20220036743
    Abstract: The application discloses a low-altitude air route planning and design method, device and storage medium for UAV with multi-objective constraints. First of all, initial air route points and air route network are set based on the urban low-altitude demand, then constraints such as conflict constraints, three zones constraints, and traffic demand constraints are introduced, the optimal multi-objective function such as the airspace capacity, operation cost, operation safety and so on is realized by moving air route points and reconstructing air route network, and the low-altitude air route networks of corresponding UAV is designed for different low-altitude environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Siyuan Li, Mingyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11166004
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a three-dimensional computational imaging method and apparatus based on a single-pixel sensor, and a storage medium. The method includes the following. A stripe coding is combined with a two-dimensional imaging coding through a preset optical coding to generate a new optical coding, and the new optical coding is loaded into an spatial light modulator (SLM); a two-dimensional spatial information and depth information of a scene are coupled into a one-dimensional measurement value by using a single-pixel detector and the SLM loaded with the new optical coding; and the two-dimensional spatial information and the depth information of the scene are reconstructed, from the one-dimensional measurement value through a decoupling algorithm, for three-dimensional imaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Liheng Bian, Jun Zhang, Xianbin Cao, Huayi Wang
  • Patent number: 11161609
    Abstract: Provided is a multi-UAV continuous movement control method for energy efficient communication coverage. The method includes: determining observation information at a current moment, the observation information including one or more of the following: energy consumption information of a UAV, coverage indication information of users covered by a UAV network facilitated by the UAV or coverage fairness information of the UAV network; determining control information corresponding to the observation information using a DDPG model according to the observation information, wherein the DDPG model is generated from a DDPG algorithm with sample information as an input, the sample information indicating a mapping relationship between sampled observation information and sampled control information; and controlling the UAV to move according to the control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Peng Yang, Xing Xi, Dapeng Wu
  • Publication number: 20210327287
    Abstract: This disclosure provides an UAV path planning method and device guided by the safety situation, UAV and storage medium, the method comprising: acquiring the image in the front view of the UAV, determining the type(s) of obstacle(s) and threat degree corresponding to each area, obtaining the coordinates of the obstacle(s) relative to the UAV in each area in the front view of the UAV and the distance from the obstacles in each area to the UAV, calculating the safety situation of each area according to the threat degree and distance corresponding to each area, calculating the cost data corresponding to each area according to the distance from each area to the target location and the safety situation of each area, determining the flight direction of the UAV according to the area with the minimum cost data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Yakun Zhao, Lei Zheng, Liang Xu
  • Patent number: 11138893
    Abstract: Provided are flight conflict resolution method and apparatus based on ultimatum game theory. The method includes: obtaining a first priority of a first aircraft and a second priority of a second aircraft when it is determined that a minimum distance between the first aircraft and the second aircraft within a preset time period is less than a preset distance; determining a first angle and a second angle of the first aircraft and a fourth angle and a fifth angle of the second aircraft according to the first priority, the second priority, and a preset limiting deflection angle; determining a third angle of the first aircraft and a sixth angle of the second aircraft; determining a first deflection angle of the first aircraft and a second deflection angle of the second aircraft according to the first and second priorities, the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth angles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Yumeng Li, Biyue Li, Lei Zheng
  • Publication number: 20210294356
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a dynamic recovery method and system for UAVs and storage medium. On the basis of obtaining the environmental information of UAVs, combined with different factors such as the following task quantity of each UAV, the distance from the current position of each UAV to the recovery point, current performance of each UAV, total cost function is constructed, and optimization is carried out through improved particle swarm optimization algorithm. Then on the premise of the lowest recovery cost, the priority of each UAV is obtained. For the ordered UAV, the route to the recovery point is determined. At the same time, it is necessary to consider conflict resolution of UAVs when encountering obstacles in the flight process, as well as the possible failure in line recovery. At this time, it is necessary to reorder some hovering UAVs to ensure flight safety of UAVs and robustness of the algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xianbin CAO, Wenbo DU, Lei ZHENG, Liang XU, Yakun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210294357
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a cooperative path planning method and device for automatic control aerocraft and aerocraft system. The method includes: determining the current evaluation index of each selected point according to its current position, the target position of the aerocraft and the position of obstacles in the selected area; updating the adjustment displacement of each selected point according to its adjustment displacement, current position and historical optimal position, as well as the global optimal position; updating the current position of each selected point according to its current position and the updated adjustment displacement; after the current position is updated for a set number of times, selecting the position corresponding to the optimal evaluation index from the current positions and global optimal position of all selected points as the next waypoint of the aerocraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: Beihang University
    Inventors: Xianbin CAO, Wenbo DU, Liang XU
  • Patent number: 11126862
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dense crowd counting method and an apparatus, including: acquiring an image to be detected, where the image to be detected includes images of people; feeding the image to be detected into a convolutional neural network model to obtain a crowd density map of the image to be detected; and determining the number of the images of people in the image to be detected according to the crowd density map. Feature information of an image to be detected may be fully extracted through the above mentioned process, thereby realizing a better performance of crowd counting and density estimation, providing great convenience for subsequent security monitoring, crowd control and other applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Xiantong Zhen, Yan Li, Lei Yue, Zehao Xiao, Yutao Hu
  • Patent number: 11102717
    Abstract: Provided are a network selection method and an apparatus for integrated cellular and drone-cell networks, where the method includes: acquiring a dynamic network model and a dynamic user model, generating a random event vector according to the dynamic network model and the dynamic user model; generating an action vector according to the random event vector; obtaining an individual utility of each user according to the action vector and the random event vector; constructing a first selection model; obtaining the value of the action probability according the first selection model to determine networks that the users choose to access according to the value of the action probability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Xing Xi, Peng Yang, Zhenyu Xiao, Dapeng Wu
  • Publication number: 20210174262
    Abstract: This application provides an airspace complexity evaluation method based on deep unsupervised learning for air traffic management, which includes the following parts. A stacked autoencoder is used to establish an airspace complexity evaluation model. Input the airspace complexity factors into the stacked autoencoder to obtain the low-dimensional embedded representations of the airspace complexity factors. Cluster the low-dimensional embedded points to capture the centroids of the airspace complexity data. The application utilizes the soft assignment distribution and real assignment distribution of the embedded representations to construct a training loss function which optimizes the airspace complexity evaluation model by gradient descent algorithm. The trained airspace complexity evaluation model and the three obtained cluster centroids describing the airspace complexity level are used to evaluate the current airspace complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: Beihang University
    Inventors: Wenbo Du, Xianbin Cao, Biyue Li, Xi Zhu, Yumeng Li
  • Publication number: 20210020051
    Abstract: A computer-based airplane flight path planning method based on the pigeon-inspired optimization (PIO) algorithm includes steps of establishing an uncertainty prediction model, determining the path to be optimized, and obtaining an optimal path using the PIO algorithm for a flight controller onboard to execute. The PIO algorithm treats a pigeon flock as a scale-free network, applies map and compass operators to the scale-free network, and performs landmark operations to obtain the optimal path. The device that performs the path planning includes an access module for obtaining the regional environment information and a flight controller onboard the airplane. The flight controller includes a building module for setting up the trajectory prediction model including uncertainties; a determining module to determine the trajectories which need optimization; an optimization module, which uses the PIO algorithm to optimize the flight path; and a computer memory module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Wenbo Du, Jintong Zhang, Haichao An, Yumeng Li, Xi Zhu
  • Publication number: 20210021799
    Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a three-dimensional computational imaging method and apparatus based on a single-pixel sensor, and a storage medium. The method includes the following. A stripe coding is combined with a two-dimensional imaging coding through a preset optical coding to generate a new optical coding, and the new optical coding is loaded into an spatial light modulator (SLM); a two-dimensional spatial information and depth information of a scene are coupled into a one-dimensional measurement value by using a single-pixel detector and the SLM loaded with the new optical coding; and the two-dimensional spatial information and the depth information of the scene are reconstructed, from the one-dimensional measurement value through a decoupling algorithm, for three-dimensional imaging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Liheng BIAN, Jun ZHANG, Xianbin CAO, Huayi WANG
  • Publication number: 20200341136
    Abstract: Provided are a method and device for determining a motion trajectory of a target. The method includes: acquiring a transmitted signal, a first echo signal, and a second echo signal of a frequency modulated continuous wave radar; performing a coherent operation on the transmitted signal and the first echo signal, to determine a beat signal therebetween; performing a two-dimensional fast Fourier transform on the beat signal to determine an initial position of the target; performing a short-time Fourier transform on the beat signal to determine a radial velocity of the target; calculating a difference frequency signal between the first and second echo signals; determining a tangential velocity of the target according to the difference frequency signal; inputting the initial position, the radial velocity, and the tangential velocity to a Kalman filter, and receiving a motion trajectory of the target output by the Kalman filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: XIANGRONG WANG, Huaiyuan Liang, Pengcheng Wang, Xianbin Cao
  • Patent number: 10719940
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a target tracking method and device oriented to airborne-based monitoring scenarios. The method includes: obtaining a video to-be-tracked of the target object in real time; extracting a first frame and a second frame; trimming and capturing the first frame to derive an image for first interest region; trimming and capturing the second frame to derive an image for target template and an image for second interest region; inputting the image for target template and the image for first interest region into an appearance tracker network to derive an appearance tracking position; inputting the image for first interest region and the image for second interest region into a motion tracker network to derive a motion tracking position; and finally inputting the appearance tracking position and the motion tracking position into a deep integration network to derive a final tracking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: BEIHANG UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Xianbin Cao, Xiantong Zhen, Yan Li, Xiaolong Jiang, Yutao Hu