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A control system for a UAV includes control translations which maximize operational employment of the UAV payload. By determining spatial references, and then using the references to transform the control stick commands, the operator treats the UAV as a point source. For control through imagery from

A control system for a UAV includes control translations which maximize operational employment of the UAV payload. By determining spatial references, and then using the references to transform the control stick commands, the operator treats the UAV as a point source. For control through imagery from onboard mission sensors, the transformations provide for the UAV to move itself and achieve payload orientation.

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1. A method of controlling an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) comprising the steps of: (1) determining a reference mode; (2) determining a reference angle in response to said step (1); (3) transforming a control input into a UAV command in response to said step (2); (4) commanding a sensor line of

1. A method of controlling an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) comprising the steps of: (1) determining a reference mode; (2) determining a reference angle in response to said step (1); (3) transforming a control input into a UAV command in response to said step (2); (4) commanding a sensor line of sight to a desired elevation angle; (5) determining if the sensor line of sight commanded in said step (4) is within a predefined sensor operational range; and (6) calculating the UAV command which moves the UAV to maintain the sensor line of sight commanded in said step (4) within the sensor operational range. 2. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the control input is defined by a stick_X_Cmd and a stick_Y_Cmd, and the UAV command is defined by an X command and a Y command, said step (3) defined by the relationship: UAV_X_Cmd=(stick_X_Cmd)(Cosine[Reference_Angle])+(stick_Y_Cmd)(Sine[Reference_Angle])