| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 342062000 | Missile or spacecraft guidance | 9 |
| 20090115654 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA FROM MULTIPLE SOURCES - Methods and apparatus for processing data from multiple sources according to various aspects of the present invention include a sensing system for determining target information. The sensing system includes sensors to generate target information and local trackers to receive the target information from the sensors. The local trackers may generate local target data for the target, and a combiner connected to the local trackers may use the local target data to generate global data for the target. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090322590 | METHOD WITH A SYSTEM FOR ASCERTAINING AND PREDICTING A MOTION OF A TARGET OBJECT - Method, tracking system, and intercept missile for tracking highly maneuverable target objects. The method includes estimating the motion of the at least one target object via a mathematical method that includes a filter method relating to a model assumption for estimating at least one of the motion and an orientation of the target object. The filter method includes a semi-martingale algorithm for estimating motion. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100026554 | ACTIVE PROTECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - There is provided an active protection system and an active protection method preferably for airborne platforms. According to the embodiment of the invention, the active protection system is mounted onboard a platform for protecting the platform, and comprises a radar system configured for generating output data including threat output data corresponding to a velocity, a range, and an angle of the threat with respect to the platform in an airspace around the platform, the output data being useful for detecting, identifying and tracking of at least one threat approaching the platform; a countermeasure system capable of launching at least one non-fragmentation interceptor projectile in response to receiving a control command; and a control unit configured for receiving the output data from the radar system and for generating the control command and transmitting the control command to the at least one non-fragmentation interceptor projectile, thereby enabling countering the threat. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20100220002 | System and Method For Roll Angle Indication and Measurement in Flying Objects - A method for onboard measurement of a deviation in orientation of an object from a desired orientation of the object. The method including: transmitting a polarized RF signal from a reference source, with a predetermined polarization plane; receiving the signal at a pair of polarized RF sensor cavities positioned symmetrical on the object with respect to the predetermined polarization plane; analyzing an output of the pair of polarized RF sensor cavities resulting from the received signal; and determining the deviation in orientation of the object relative to the predetermined plane based on the analysis. The method can further include controlling the object based on the determined deviation in orientation. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100295720 | Integrated Reference Source And Target Designator System For High-Precision Guidance of Guided Munitions - A method for guidance of a moving object towards a target. The method including: providing reference signals from RF reference sources to illuminate RF sensors on the moving object; positioning the RF reference sources to form a reference coordinate system; determining position information designating a position of the target in the reference coordinate system by a forward observer; fixing at least one of the RF reference sources at the forward observer in the reference coordinate system; determining a position and orientation of the moving object in the reference coordinate system on board the moving object based on signals received at the RF sensors from the RF reference sources and based on the positions of the RF reference sources; and guiding the moving object to the target at least based on the determined position and orientation of the moving object and the determined position information of the designated target. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20120169524 | SINGLE CHANNEL SEMI-ACTIVE RADAR SEEKER - The disclosed approach provides a low-cost approach by employing a single channel receiver for a direction-finding missile, rather than a conventional four-channel system. It employs interferometry techniques. The proposed approach leverages orthogonal waveforms and pseudorandom noise (PN) codes. This is a low-cost approach for a single channel direction finding system by leveraging orthogonal waveforms and interferometric techniques. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120200449 | ADAPTIVE ELECTRONICALLY STEERABLE ARRAY (AESA) SYSTEM FOR MULTI-BAND AND MULTI-APERTURE OPERATION AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING DATA LINKS WITH ONE OR MORE STATIONS IN DIFFERENT FREQUENCY BANDS - Embodiments of an adaptive electronically steerable array (AESA) system suitable for use on a vehicle and method for communicating are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the AESA system includes a plurality of arrays of radiating elements and control circuitry to configure the arrays for multi-band and multi-aperture operations to maintain data links with communication stations. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120249358 | DYNAMIC CALIBRATION RADAR SYSTEM - A missile radar system includes a tapered radome covering a front face of a main antenna. A calibration antenna is the combination of a metal tip and an attached one or more radiating or excitation elements (monopole) on the tip. A narrow end (wedge) of the radome may aid in directing planar calibration waves toward the main antenna. The metal tip has a curved inner surface that acts, with the attached radiating element(s), as an aperture antenna. Signals are emitted from the calibration antenna back toward the front face of the main antenna. The signals pass from the tip/reflector to the front face of the main antenna through a substantially-metal-free and substantially-dielectric-free volume defined by the inner surface of the radome. The radar system allows for calibration of the antenna prior to launch and/or during flight of the missile. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120268309 | VIRTUAL APERTURE RADAR (VAR) IMAGING - Virtual Aperture Radar (VAR) imaging provides terminal phase radar imaging for an airborne weapon that can resolve multiple closely-spaced or highly correlated scatterers on a given target with a single pulse to provide an aimpoint update at a useful range to target without training data and without requiring a large aperture antenna. VAR imaging exploits the sparse, dominant-scatterer nature of man-made targets. The array manifold is constructed with a large number of basis functions that are parameterized by range or angle (or both) to target. The number of basis functions extends the capability to resolve scatterers beyond the Rayleigh resolution. However, this also makes the manifold underdetermined. A sparse reconstruction technique that places a sparsity constraint on the number of scatterers is used to solve the manifold to uniquely identify the ranges or angles to the scatterers on the target. These updates are passed to the weapon's guidance system, which in turn generates command signals to actuate aerodynamic surfaces such as fins or canards to steer the weapon to the target. | 10-25-2012 |
