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Multi-degrees-of-freedom hand controller

  • US 10,481,704 B2
  • Filed: 12/29/2016
  • Issued: 11/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A controller for a control target that is at least one of an aircraft, a submersible vehicle, or a spacecraft, and that is (A) movable in a least one of the following translations:

  • (1) forward and backward along an x-axis of the control target, (2) side to side along a y-axis of the control target, or (3) up and down along a z-axis of the control target, and (B) movable in at least one of the following rotations;

    (1) yaw, (2) pitch, or (3) roll, the controller comprising;

    a first control member movable in at least one degree of freedom to produce at least one control signal configured to cause the control target to move in one or more degrees of freedom, all of which are rotational, including at least one of the rotations; and

    a second control member movable in at least one degree of freedom to produce at least one control signal configured to cause the control target to move in one or more degrees of freedom, all of which are translational, including at least one of the translations.

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