ROTORCRAFT AUTOPILOT CONTROL

Patent №

US 9,868,522

Granted

2018-01-16

Filed 2014

Owner

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14465334

A rotorcraft autopilot system includes a series actuator connecting a cockpit control component to a swashplate of a rotorcraft, the series actuator to modify a control input from the cockpit control component to the swashplate through a downstream control component. The rotorcraft autopilot system also includes a differential friction system connected to the cockpit control component, the differential friction system to control the series actuator to automatically adjust a position of the cockpit control component during rotorcraft flight based, in part, on a flight mode of the rotorcraft.

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AI classification

Planning0.99
Vision0.00
Speech0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.

assignment · 335840732

Assignors

GRIFFITH, CARL D., ATKINS, BRADY G., RAZA, AWAIS, WILSON, PAUL M.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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