US Patent Issued to Performance Drone Works on Feb. 10 for "Adaptive controller for unmanned aircraft" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,417, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Performance Drone Works LLC (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Adaptive controller for unmanned aircraft" was invented by Philip Herlihy (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for an unmanned ariel vehicle (UAV) having a closed-loop controller that is gain scheduled based on a trained machine learning model. The closed-loop controller could be a PID controller. Real-time data pertaining to the motor being controlled is input to the trained machine learning model. Examples of the real-time data includes, but is not limited to, motor current, motor voltage, and an estimate of motor thrust. Th...