METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RELATIVE GUIDANCE OF WATERCRAFT

Abstract: systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to relatively maneuver watercraft. a disclosed apparatus includes interface circuitry communicatively coupled to a sensor carried by a first watercraft, machine-readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to: calculate a pose between the first watercraft and a second watercraft based on output from the sensor, determine whether the first watercraft is within a threshold offset relative to the second watercraft based on the pose, and provide an indication as to whether or not to adjust operation of the first watercraft based on whether or not the first watercraft is within the threshold offset relative to the second watercraft.

Inventor(s): Abhijeet Agnihotri, Max Lewis Greene

CPC Classification: B63B49/00 (Arrangements of nautical instruments or navigational aids (nautical measuring instruments ; radio navigation, analogous arrangements using other waves ))

Search for rejections for patent application number 20250178703