System and method for low speed wind estimation in VTOL aircraft

    公开(公告)号:US12234010B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US17494236

    申请日:2021-10-05

    Abstract: A wind estimation system for an aircraft includes a first sensor configured to sense a first position associated with an aircraft control component in a wind condition, a second sensor configured to sense a first configuration associated with a rotor system of the aircraft in the wind condition, and at least one controller in communication with at least one of the first sensor or the second sensor. The at least one controller is configured to determine a tip-path-plane angle of the aircraft based on the first position and the first configuration, and determine at least one of a current wind speed or current wind direction based on the tip-path-plane angle.

    Integrated microwave radio frequency feed network

    公开(公告)号:US12230876B1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US18053113

    申请日:2022-11-07

    Abstract: Provided herein are various enhancements for waveguide structures used in radio frequency feed components. In one example, an apparatus includes a septum polarizer having first feed ports and a common port, a high-pass filter coupled to the common port of the septum polarizer, and a multi-port orthomode transducer (OMT) coupled to the high-pass filter and providing an antenna port. The apparatus also includes hybrid couplers coupled to low-pass filters fed from the multi-port OMT, and magic tee elements cross-coupled to the hybrid couplers and providing second feed ports.

    Solar irradiance mitigation in satellite optical communication

    公开(公告)号:US12224799B1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-11

    申请号:US18539391

    申请日:2023-12-14

    Abstract: Provided herein are various enhanced systems, apparatuses, and techniques for optical communication among a constellation of satellites. One example includes establishing an initial cross-connect configuration comprising optical communication links among a constellation of satellites. In the initial cross-connect configuration, the satellites can optically communicate with both adjacently positioned and non-adjacently positioned satellites in the constellation. The satellites obtain angular states of the optical communication links resultant from orbital motion of the satellites. When angular states of a portion of the optical communication links reach an exclusion range, the satellites establish a subsequent cross-connect configuration to avoid optically communicating within the exclusion range.

    Stress reducing fastener assembly

    公开(公告)号:US12215743B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-04

    申请号:US17238575

    申请日:2021-04-23

    Abstract: A system includes a first structure having an upper surface coupled to a second structure by a fastener assembly including a bushing positioned within an opening in the upper surface of the first structure. An inner opening of the bushing defines an inner diameter, and a fastener is at least partially positioned within the bushing. An outer surface of the fastener defines an outer diameter of the fastener. The bushing and the fastener are configured such that a space between the outer surface of the fastener and the inner opening of the bushing defines a gap which increases in size in a direction extending from the upper surface to the lower surface of the first structure.

    SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING IGNITION POTENTIAL OF LIGHTNING EVENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20250028076A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18758750

    申请日:2024-06-28

    Abstract: Technology is disclosed herein to generate an indication of a potential that a lightning event will result in ignition based on satellite data. In an implementation, a computing system obtains data associated with a lightning event. The data includes a location of the lightning event and one or more measurements of the lightning event captured by a sensor. The computing system identifies characteristics of the lightning event based at least on the one or more measurements. The computing system predicts the ignition potential of the lightning event based at least on the lightning characteristics and the fuels characteristics.

    Quantum Neural Network Systems and Methods Using Quantum Embedding

    公开(公告)号:US20250021855A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-16

    申请号:US18589534

    申请日:2024-02-28

    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method includes removing a last feed forward layer from a pre-trained neural network. The method further includes appending the pre-trained neural network with a secondary last feed forward layer configured to output a plurality of parameters. The method further includes updating each one of the plurality of parameters by: 1) multiplying each one of the plurality of parameters by a first factor to produce a plurality of resultant parameters; and 2) adding a second term to each one of the plurality of resultant parameters, wherein both the first factor and the second term vary due to backpropagation. The method further includes using a loss function to determine the distance between a known class embedding and an input from an input dataset. Lastly, the method includes updating one or more weights associated with the number of variables in the pre-trained neural network.

    METHOD OF STABILIZING ARTICULATED ROTOR BLADE

    公开(公告)号:US20250010983A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-09

    申请号:US18887678

    申请日:2024-09-17

    Abstract: A rotor blade includes a spar with forward end, an aft end, and a substantially oval cross-section. The cross-section includes an upper portion tapering from a first thickness to a smaller, second thickness beginning between about 55% and about 65% of the distance to the aft end from the forward end and ending between about 65% and about 75% of the distance to the aft end measured from the forward end, and a lower portion tapering from a third thickness to a smaller, fourth thickness beginning between about 55% and about 65% of the distance to the aft end from the forward end and ending between about 65% and about 75% of the distance to the aft end measured from the forward end. The rotor blade further includes an upper blade skin, a lower blade skin, and a leading edge sheath.

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