DocumentCode
1006153
Title
Aircraft attitude estimation from horizon video
Author
Cornall, T.D. ; Egan, G.K. ; Price, A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia
Volume
42
Issue
13
fYear
2006
fDate
6/22/2006 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
744
Lastpage
745
Abstract
Measurement of aircraft attitude is a necessary step for autonomous control of aircraft. Autonomous aircraft are useful for a range of military and civilian purposes. A method of very low computational complexity is presented that allows the pitch and roll angles of an aircraft to be measured onboard an unmanned aircraft from real-time video of the horizon. This method can be used for maintaining level flight, and provides a degree of automatic terrain avoidance.
Keywords
aircraft control; attitude control; attitude measurement; video signal processing; aircraft attitude estimation; automatic terrain avoidance; autonomous control; computational complexity; horizon video; level flight; pitch angles; roll angles; unmanned aircraft;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:20060547
Filename
1648562
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