US 12,142,153 B2
Vehicle motion controller via off-axis beam measurement
Kyle Robert Drexler, San Diego, CA (US); Stephen Hammel, Lakeside, CA (US); John Stephen deGrassie, San Diego, CA (US); and Benjamin Joel Laxton, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US)
Filed by United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/087,503.
Prior Publication US 2024/0212514 A1, Jun. 27, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 5/00 (2006.01); G06V 20/17 (2022.01)
CPC G08G 5/0069 (2013.01) [G06V 20/17 (2022.01); G08G 5/0091 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of controlling a vehicle comprising:
propagating a photon beam along a beam propagation path through a medium;
monitoring, with a vehicle-mounted sensor, intensities of off-axis photons that are scattered by aerosol particles in the beam propagation path; and
maintaining the vehicle within a vehicle path based on monitored off-axis-photon intensities, wherein the vehicle path is offset from, and parallel to, the propagation path.