Unmanned Aircraft Navigation for Shipboard Landing Using Infrared Vision

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA601178

Entities

People

  • Isaac Kaminer
  • O. A. Yakimenko
  • P. A. Ghyzel
  • W. J. Lentz

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Cameras
  • Control Systems
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Geometry
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Hot Spots
  • Image Processing
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Navigation
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Onboard
  • Photographs
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Visible Spectra
  • World Geodetic System

Readers

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  • Computer Vision.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy