• DocumentCode
    1053830
  • Title

    Unmanned aircraft navigation for shipboard landing using infrared vision

  • Author

    Yakimenko, O.A. ; Kaminer, I.I. ; Lentz, W.J. ; Ghyzel, P.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut. Eng., Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA, USA
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    10/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1181
  • Lastpage
    1200
  • Abstract
    This paper addresses the problem of determining the relative position and orientation of an unmanned air vehicle with respect to a ship using three visible points of known separation. The, images of the points are obtained from an onboard infrared camera. The paper develops a numerical solution to this problem. Both simulation and flight test results are presented.
  • Keywords
    aircraft landing guidance; image processing; infrared imaging; numerical analysis; ships; flight test data analysis; infrared vision; numerical solution; onboard IR camera; relative orientation determination; relative position determination; shipboard landing; unmanned air vehicle; unmanned aircraft navigation; Aerospace simulation; Aircraft navigation; Cameras; Filtering algorithms; Infrared imaging; Infrared sensors; Marine vehicles; Sensor systems; Trajectory; Unmanned aerial vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9251
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAES.2002.1145742
  • Filename
    1145742