Experimental Analysis of Advanced Control and Estimation Systems for Autonomous Ship Landing

Abstract

Penn State has conducted scale experiments of a complete auto-landing system in collaboration with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD). These experiments have taken advantage of low-cost commodities, electronics, and multi-rotor aircraft to demonstrate automatic landing capabilities via landings on ship models at the Carderock wave tank facilities. These experiments have dealt with the development and implementation of trajectory generation methods, scalable flight control laws, deck motion prediction algorithms, vision-based sensing, and state estimation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 2023
Accession Number
AD1201937

Entities

People

  • Jack W Langelaan
  • Joseph F. Horn

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Estimators
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Ground Control Stations
  • Ground Stations
  • Guidance
  • Helicopters
  • Kalman Filters
  • Landing Gear
  • Motion Capture
  • Navigation
  • Prostheses And Implants
  • Ship Decks
  • Standards
  • Students
  • Surface Warfare
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vehicles

Readers

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems