Gesture Recognition for UCAV-N Flight Deck Operations

Abstract

How can unmanned air vehicles be transitioned seamlessly into carrier operations alongside legacy manned aircraft? One way be through automatic recognition of the flight deck director's gestures to the aircraft. If a system could automatically recognize and respond to the director's signals (e.g. "come forward", "left", "right", "stop") just like a pilot would, then unmanned aircraft could be integrated onto the flight deck with minimal impact to operations or training. This report defines the problem of computer vision and gesture recognition on the, carrier flight deck, and discusses technical issues and describes conditions in engineering terms (how fast, how far, where, how dark, min/max, variance) sufficient to select sensors and approaches with high likelihood of success.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 23, 2003
Accession Number
ADA422629

Entities

People

  • Larry Venetsky
  • Mark Husni
  • Mark Yager

Organizations

  • Naval Air Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Flight Decks
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Image Recognition
  • Neural Networks
  • Nose Wheels
  • Recognition
  • Systems Engineering
  • Three Dimensional
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Uss Harry S. Truman
  • Uss Nimitz

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs