G05D2107/38

CONTROL SYSTEM
20240166377 · 2024-05-23 ·

A control system for an aerospace vehicle includes a voter and a plurality of control blocks. Each control block includes: a controller configured to receive an input signal and perform a control algorithm that includes an integral function on the input signal to provide an output signal; and a feedback controller that is configured to: receive the output signal from the controller, a reference signal from an external controller, and a plant feedback signal from an external plant; perform a feedback algorithm on the output signal to provide an feedback control signal; and perform a combinator algorithm using the reference signal, the plant feedback signal and the feedback control signal to provide the input signal to the controller; wherein the voter is configured to receive the output signals and perform a voting algorithm on the output signals to determine a control signal to provide to the external plant.

Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle path planning

Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle path planning are described herein. An example vehicle includes an image sensor to obtain an image of a scene of an area surrounding the vehicle. The vehicle also includes navigation system circuitry to: analyze the image and generate a semantically segmented image that identifies one or more types of features in the image; project the semantically segmented image to a two-dimensional (2D) map projection; convert the 2D map projection into a cost map; and determine a path for the vehicle based on the cost map.

Control system
12552554 · 2026-02-17 · ·

A control system for an aerospace vehicle includes a voter and a plurality of control blocks. Each control block includes: a controller configured to receive an input signal and perform a control algorithm that includes an integral function on the input signal to provide an output signal; and a feedback controller that is configured to: receive the output signal from the controller, a reference signal from an external controller, and a plant feedback signal from an external plant; perform a feedback algorithm on the output signal to provide an feedback control signal; and perform a combinator algorithm using the reference signal, the plant feedback signal and the feedback control signal to provide the input signal to the controller; wherein the voter is configured to receive the output signals and perform a voting algorithm on the output signals to determine a control signal to provide to the external plant.

STATISTICAL LOW-THRUST INDIRECT MANEUVER ENGINE

A trajectory determination engine configured to determine one or more trajectories for an extraterrestrial vehicle. The trajectory determination system is further configured to: obtain a reference trajectory for an extraterrestrial vehicle from an initial state of the extraterrestrial vehicle to a user-specified target; receive a plurality of simulated flights that each represent a computation of a truth trajectory for a corresponding extraterrestrial vehicle in which an error is introduced such that the corresponding extraterrestrial vehicle is off-path from the reference trajectory by the error; select one of the truth trajectories for the extraterrestrial vehicle based on estimated movement of the extraterrestrial vehicle from the initial state towards the user-specified target; obtain a thrust profile that allows the extraterrestrial vehicle to adjust movement towards the user-specified target; and generate an updated truth trajectory for the extraterrestrial vehicle by combining the truth trajectory with the thrust profile.