Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aircraft require precision approach and landing systems (PALS) in several environments, such as urban, suburban, and rural. It is challenging to implement current state-of-the-art methods approved for automated approach and landing for AAM operations with challenges such as GPS degradation in urban environments and visual navigation aids like the glideslope and localizer being narrow and not allowing alternative incoming landing angles at vertiports. However, existing technology and systems, i.e., the instrument landing system (ILS) with glideslope and localizer indicators that use vision, IR, radar, or GPS methods, provide baseline perception and sensing requirements for AAM aircraft approach and landing. This paper focuses on vision-based PAL and computer vision feature correspondence methods to demonstrate a baseline navigation system while adhering to the Federal Aviation Administration requirements and regulations about heliport design (FAA AC 150/5390-2C), which is one of the closest references for vertiport requirements and regulations. The coplanar pose from orthography and scaling with iterations (COPOSIT) algorithm determines pose estimation, which feeds into an Extended Kalman filter that combines IMU with vision to create a vision-based approach and landing (VAL) sensor fusion navigation solution for GPS-denied environments. The VAL navigation solution provides promising simulation results for AAM PALS with Hough circle detection and feature correspondence, which demonstrate robustness to false positives. This paper incorporates moderately high- fidelity simulations with computer graphics rendering to show a distributed sensor network to track an AAM aircraft during approach and landing to compare with the aircraft’s onboard vision-based navigation solution.


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    Titel :

    Simulated Vision-based Approach and Landing System for Advanced Air Mobility


    Beteiligte:
    Evan Kawamura (Autor:in) / Chester Dolph (Autor:in) / Keerthana Kannan (Autor:in) / Thomas Lombaerts (Autor:in) / Corey Ippolito (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    AIAA Science and Technology (SciTech) Forum and Exposition 2023 ; 2023 ; National Harbor, MD, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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