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US 9,068,925 B1Granted
Optical internal configuration monitoring system monitoring the bending of a platform for correcting travel direction of a platform
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsJeffrey H. Hunt, Timothy E. Bridges
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for detecting a change in an internal configuration of a platform. The apparatus comprises a number of optical fibers and a detector. The number of optical fibers extends through a platform. The detector is configured to detect a change in a manner in which light propagates through the number of optical fibers when an internal configuration of the platform changes.
Claims21
An apparatus comprising:
- a number of optical fibers extending through a platform;
- a detector configured to detect a change to an internal configuration of the platform by determining a change in a manner in which light propagates through the number of optical fibers to identify a bending of the platform;
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- a navigation system configured to account for the bending of the platform to avoid unnecessary corrections to the direction in which the platform travels.
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A method for detecting a change in an internal configuration of a platform, the method comprising:
- sending light through a number of optical fibers extending through the platform;
- detecting a deformation of the platform by determining a change in a manner in which the light propagates through the number of optical fibers when the internal configuration of the platform changes to identify a bending of the platform;
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- accounting for the bending of the platform to avoid unnecessary corrections to the direction in which the platform travels.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.