Vehicle guidance system
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1. A vehicle guidance system comprising:
- a measurement system;
a processor arranged to receive information from the measurement system and convert said information into at least one time-to-contact based parameter; and
a control system arranged to receive the at least one time-to-contact based parameter from the processor, compare the at least one time-to-contact based parameter with at least one target time-to-contact based parameter, and use the at least one time-to-contact based parameter and the at least one target time-to-contact based parameter to automatically guide the vehicle to close a motion gap.
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Abstract
A vehicle guidance system comprising: a measurement system; a processor arranged to receive information from the measurement system and convert said information into at least one time-to-contact based parameter; and a control system arranged to receive the at least one time-to-contact based parameter from the processor and use the at least one time-to-contact based parameter to either automatically guide the vehicle or to provide vehicle guidance information to a pilot.
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33 Claims
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1. A vehicle guidance system comprising:
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a measurement system; a processor arranged to receive information from the measurement system and convert said information into at least one time-to-contact based parameter; and a control system arranged to receive the at least one time-to-contact based parameter from the processor, compare the at least one time-to-contact based parameter with at least one target time-to-contact based parameter, and use the at least one time-to-contact based parameter and the at least one target time-to-contact based parameter to automatically guide the vehicle to close a motion gap. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 25, 26)
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20. An aircraft landing guidance system comprising:
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a measurement system; a processor arranged to receive information from the measurement system and convert said information into at least one time-to-contact based parameter; and a control system arranged to receive the at least one time-to-contact based parameter from the processor, compare the at least one time-to-contact based parameter with target time-to-contact based parameter, and use the at least one time-to-contact based parameter to automatically guide an aircraft in a first motion having a rate of change of time-to-contact of 1 followed by a second motion having a rate of change of time-to-contact ({dot over (τ
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24. A vehicle guidance method comprising:
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measuring information; converting said information into a time-to-contact based parameter; comparing the time-to-contact based parameter and a target time-to-contact based parameter; and using the time-to-contact based parameter and the target time-to-contact based parameter to automatically guide the vehicle to close a motion gap.
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27. A vehicle guidance system comprising:
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a measurement system; a processor arranged to receive information from the measurement system and convert said information into at least one time-to-contact based parameter; and a control system arranged to receive the at least one time-to-contact based parameter from the processor, compare the at least one time-to contact based parameter with at least one target time-to-contact based parameter, and use the at least one time-to-contact based parameter and the at least one target time-to-contact based parameter to provide vehicle guidance information to a pilot to enable the pilot to close a motion gap, wherein the at least one time-to-contact based parameter comprises a rate of change of time-to-contact. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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