Disclosed herein is methods, systems, and aircraft for performing refueling operations. A method of controlling pilot director lights includes generating, using a camera of a tanker aircraft, a two-dimensional (2D) image of a receiver aircraft and a refueling boom of the tanker aircraft, determining a 2D position of a boom receptacle on the receiver aircraft within the 2D image, determining a three-dimensional (3D) position of the boom receptacle with regard to an origin location of the camera of the tanker aircraft, moving the 3D position of the boom receptacle to have a boom pivot origin to produce a moved 3D position of the boom receptacle, and controlling one or more pilot director lights based on the moved 3D position.
AERIAL REFUELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
14.11.2024
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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