Competent munitions using range correction with auto-registration

US6069584A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Collins, Inc. · US

Inventor

• Mark Johnson · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 10, 1997
• Grant date: May 30, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 10, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01S19/41
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for monitoring guiding and controlling an unmanned, unteathered flight vehicle, generally assumed to be moving through the atmosphere of the earth at a high rate of speed. The system comprised an on-board positional receiver and processing means coupled to a transceiver capable of combining such positional information with additional data relative to the health and status of the flight vehicle and transmitting the same to a ground station of compatible and simplified design. A preferred positional determination means is to utilize a form for GPS signal thereby affording one the opportunity to include appropriate processing software or additional componentry if necessary for base station purposes and thereby provide a relatively inexpensive system having a low probability of detection for intercept that simultaneously yields vastly improved operating performance characteristics over the mere translation of received GPS signals to down-link or to remote stations as known in the prior art. The system of the present invention may be utilized to provide auto-registration correction, range-only correction, or a combination of auto-registration and range correction.