Nicholas R Visser

US Patent:

20190311634, Oct 10, 2019

Filed:

Apr 5, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/946206

Inventors:

- Grand Rapids MI, US
Reza Ghaemi - Watervliet NY, US
Mark Lawrence Darnell - Ada MI, US
Nicholas Race Visser - Kentwood MI, US

International Classification:

G08G 5/00
G05D 1/10
G07C 5/08

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating efficient flight profiles in a variety of aircraft are disclosed. A method can include receiving required time of arrival (RTA) constraints for the aerial vehicle. The RTA constraints include a required time of arrival for a waypoint. The method also includes inputting the RTA constraints into a problem configured to generate flight plans based on the required time of arrival for the waypoint of the RTA constraints. The problem can include an altitude variable and a speed variable. The method also includes generating, as a solution to the problem, a flight plan by varying the altitude variable and the speed variable in order to reduce operating cost of the aerial vehicle based at least in part on the RTA constraints, and providing the flight plan to at least one computing system of the aerial vehicle. The flight plan includes a route traversing the waypoint.

US Patent:

20180349322, Dec 6, 2018

Filed:

Jun 6, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/615816

Inventors:

- Grand Rapids MI, US
Robert Schroer - Cincinnati OH, US
Sean Hwang - Grand Rapids MI, US
Nicholas Visser - Grand Rapids MI, US
Sridhar Adibhatla - Glendale OH, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/17

Abstract:

Generation of models in real time embedded systems that approximate non-embedded models while reducing a complexity associated with the non-embedded models is provided herein. A system can comprise a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores executable components executed by the processor. The executable components can comprise an evaluation manager component that identifies an input parameter of a first model based on a defined output parameter of the first model and a relation manager component that determines one or more relations in the first model. Relations of the one or more relations can comprise an intermediary parameter determined based on the input parameter and the defined output parameter of the first model. Further, the system can comprise a model generator manager component that generates a second model that approximates the first model and includes a replication of the one or more relations of the first model.

US Patent:

20180096608, Apr 5, 2018

Filed:

Sep 30, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/282003

Inventors:

- Schenectady NY, US
MacKenzie CUMINGS - Grand Rapids MI, US
Mark Lawrence DARNELL - Grand Rapids MI, US
David LAX - Grand Rapids MI, US
Liling REN - Niskayuna NY, US
Nicholas VISSER - Grand Rapids MI, US

International Classification:

G08G 5/00
G05D 1/10

Abstract:

A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.