Appeal No. 2002-1879
Application No. 09/246,212
presence of the pursuing vehicle” (specification, page 1).
Representative claim 1 reads as follows:
1. In a system for directing a pursuing vehicle from a
launching vehicle to a target vehicle wherein the launching
vehicle determines a range and bearing to and course and speed of
the target vehicle and generates initial operating parameters for
transfer to the pursuing vehicle that establish an intercept
trajectory including a path along an aim point bearing to the
target vehicle from the launching vehicle and wherein the
determination of the initial operating parameters is made with
respect to a first Cartesian coordinate system having an ordinate
axis on the determined bearing, the improvement for enabling the
operating parameters to compensate for a post launch evasive
maneuver of the target vehicle comprising the steps of:
defining the trajectory of the target vehicle including the
evasive maneuver on a second Cartesian coordinate system;
converting the definition of the target vehicle course from
the second to the first Cartesian coordinate system by rotating
the second Cartesian coordinate system by an angel equal to the
difference between the aim point path bearing and the determined
bearing to the target; and
iteratively processing the courses of the pursuing and
target vehicles to the intercept in advance of the launch to
generate the initial operating parameters.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner to support the
final rejection are:
Thornberg et al. (Thornberg) 5,552,983 Sep. 3, 1996
Bessacini 6,006,145 Dec. 21, 1999
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