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Infrared-Based Autonomous Navigation for Civil Aircraft Precision Approach and Landing
2019
IEEE Access
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INDEX TERMS Civil aircraft, autonomous navigation, infrared image, runway detection, approach and landing. ...
Precise navigation is a fundamental problem of aircraft safety approach and landing. ...
DISCUSSION In this paper we have proposed a novel infrared-based autonomous navigation method for civil aircraft precision approach and landing. ...
doi:10.1109/access.2019.2893062
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Using Ground-Based Passive Reflectors for Improving UAV Landing
2021
Drones
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Various landing systems and approaches are analyzed, and their key advantages and disadvantages are summarized; afterwards, an approach with passive reflectors is considered. ...
describing still remaining challenges and subjects for further research. ...
Satellite Landing System (SLS) Approaches relying on satellite navigation are a type of area navigation, meaning navigation that allows an aircraft to choose any course within a network of navigation beacons ...
doi:10.3390/drones5040137
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Automatic Take Off, Tracking and Landing of a Miniature UAV on a Moving Carrier Vehicle
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2010
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
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The system provides small errors and allows for safe, autonomous indoor flights. ...
at a constant distance and landing on a platform on the carrier in motion. ...
The setup can also be used for safe automatic approaching and landing after a successful autonomous GPS-based or manual flight. ...
doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1110-5_15
fatcat:wqhfd4hh55gztdanrrvtyis2gi
Automatic Take Off, Tracking and Landing of a Miniature UAV on a Moving Carrier Vehicle
2010
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems
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The system provides small errors and allows for safe, autonomous indoor flights. ...
at a constant distance and landing on a platform on the carrier in motion. ...
The setup can also be used for safe automatic approaching and landing after a successful autonomous GPS-based or manual flight. ...
doi:10.1007/s10846-010-9473-0
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Infrared-Inertial Navigation for Commercial Aircraft Precision Landing in Low Visibility and GPS-Denied Environments
2019
Sensors
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This paper proposes a novel infrared-inertial navigation method for the precise landing of commercial aircraft in low visibility and Global Position System (GPS)-denied environments. ...
The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed method could be used for the precise landing of commercial aircraft in low visibility and GPS-denied environments. ...
Introduction Landing is the most accident-prone phase of flight for both military and civil aircraft. ...
doi:10.3390/s19020408
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Autonomous Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2019
Electronics
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being increasingly used in different applications in both military and civilian domains [...] ...
VTOL Vertical take-off and landing R&D Research and development ...
Special thanks go to the Editorial Board of MDPI Electronics journal for the opportunity to edit this special issue, and to the Electronics Editorial Office staff for the hard and attentive work in keeping ...
doi:10.3390/electronics8040452
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Low-Cost Navigation and Guidance Systems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles — Part 1: Vision-Based and Integrated Sensors
2012
Annual of Navigation
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, with a special focus on precision approach and landing, where Vision Based Navigation (VBN) techniques can be fully exploited in a multisensor integrated architecture. ...
Various existing techniques for VBN were compared and the Appearance-Based Approach (ABA) was selected for implementation. ...
As a first step, we designed and tested a VBN sensor employing appearance-based techniques and specifically tailored for UAV low-level flight, including precision approach and landing operations. ...
doi:10.2478/v10367-012-0019-3
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Aircraft dynamics model augmentation for RPAS navigation and guidance
2016
2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
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Fig. 7 . 7 UVIGA horizontal channel -ADM precision approach and landing performance.
Fig. 8 . 8 UVIGA horizontal channel -ADM precision approach and landing performance.
TABLE I . ...
The ADM in UVIGA system was tested especially in precision approach and landing phases of flight, which are the most demanding and critical phases, for determining its performance. ...
doi:10.1109/icuas.2016.7502644
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A Low-cost Vision Based Navigation System for Small Size Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Applications
2013
Journal of Aeronautics & Aerospace Engineering
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with a special focus on precision approach and landing, where Vision Based Navigation (VBN) techniques can be fully exploited in a multisensory integrated architecture. ...
Various existing techniques for VBN are compared and the Appearance-based Navigation (ABN) approach is selected for implementation. ...
As a first step, we designed and tested a VBN sensor employing appearance-based techniques and specifically tailored for UAV low-level flight, including precision approach and landing operations. ...
doi:10.4172/2168-9792.1000110
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Localization Framework for Real-Time UAV Autonomous Landing: An On-Ground Deployed Visual Approach
2017
Sensors
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This approach is definitely suitable for landing within the global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-denied environments. ...
One of the greatest challenges for fixed-wing unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) is safe landing. Hereafter, an on-ground deployed visual approach is developed in this paper. ...
Author Contributions: W.K. proposed and designed the ground-based navigation system architecture. W.K. and T.H. implemented the vision algorithms to test the capability of the system. ...
doi:10.3390/s17061437
pmid:28629189
pmcid:PMC5492450
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Optical Navigation Sensor for Runway Relative Positioning of Aircraft during Final Approach
2021
Sensors
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Precise navigation is often performed by sensor fusion of different sensors. Among these sensors, optical sensors use image features to obtain the position and attitude of the camera. ...
Runway relative navigation during final approach is a special case where robust and continuous detection of the runway is required. ...
The authors acknowledge the technical support of colleagues at SZTAKI and ONERA, and thankful for the coordination of the VISION project to Yoko Watanabe. ...
doi:10.3390/s21062203
pmid:33801137
pmcid:PMC8004248
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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SOME UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES DEPLOYED IN MARITIME SURVEILLANCE
2020
Zenodo
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In addition, weaknesses as complexity of the systems and the requirement of highly skilled personnel for these aircraft design, production, operation and maintenance, along with opportunities like lower ...
As examples, the Zephyr pseudo-satellite, as well as the AR5 and the AR3 medium altitude unmanned aircraft have been presented. ...
There is a strong argument in favor of increasing initiatives for testing, validating and integrating unmanned systems within current surveillance infrastructures (both land and maritime based), as these ...
doi:10.5281/zenodo.4399137
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Performances of Some Autonomous Assets in Maritime Missions
2020
TransNav: International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation
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-High level of autonomous navigation, collecting data and -Lower operational costs in comparison with manned coming back to the seasurface vessel. aircrafts used for the same mission profiles. ...
no need for -Being tight and waterproof. aircraft downtime for pilot rendition. ...
doi:10.12716/1001.14.04.12
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An Innovative Procedure for Calibration of Strapdown Electro-Optical Sensors Onboard Unmanned Air Vehicles
2010
Sensors
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The method has been applied to the alignment of the visible and infrared cameras installed onboard the experimental aircraft of the Italian Aerospace Research Center and adopted for in-flight obstacle ...
This paper presents an innovative method for estimating the attitude of airborne electro-optical cameras with respect to the onboard autonomous navigation unit. ...
Increased situational awareness is also very important in manned flight, e.g. in the approach and landing phases under bad visibility conditions. ...
doi:10.3390/s100100639
pmid:22315559
pmcid:PMC3270860
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Airborne Multisensor Tracking for Autonomous Collision Avoidance
2006
2006 9th International Conference on Information Fusion
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The hardware setup is composed by a pulsed radar, two infrared cameras, and two visible cameras used as aiding sensors, thus the adoption of a fusion algorithm was mandatory to obtain the most accurate ...
The paper describes the different modes and the relevant attainable performances of the developed tracking algorithm. The adopted data fusion technique for tracking is the Kalman filter. ...
Flight Path Execution -Autonomous Approach and Landing; -Obstacle Detect, Sense, and Avoid (DS&A); -Autonomous Runway Search and Lock; -.Enhanced Remote Piloting. ...
doi:10.1109/icif.2006.301724
dblp:conf/fusion/FasanoAMP06
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