Aerial Delivery System with High Accuracy Touchdown

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Bourakov, Eugene
Yakimenko, Oleg
Bordetsky, Alex
Date
2014-08-12Metadata
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Embodiments described herein provide a system and method
for persistent high-accuracy payload delivery utilizing a twophase
procedure during the terminal descent phase of aerial
payload delivery. In the first phase a small parafoil provides
aerial delivery of a payload to within a close proximity of an
intended touchdown point, e.g., a target. In the second phase
a target designator acquires the target and a trajectory to the
target is determined. A harpoon launcher deploys a harpoon
connected to the payload by an attachment line, such as a
rope. A reel mechanism reels up the attachment line causing
the payload to be moved to the target thus providing high
accuracy touchdown payload delivery.
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