Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) require aircraft surveillance and monitoring for safety and security. Persistent tracking of flying objects provides Air Traffic Control (ATC) and Air Traffic Management (ATM) continuous coverage and knowledge of the national airspace (NAS). Since there are numerous more AAM and UAM aircraft than commercial aircraft, it will be challenging to utilize the same ATC/ATM architectures. A first step in creating a similar ATC/ATM architecture for AAM/UAM will require ground-based and airborne-based sensors to provide monitoring, which will be difficult in urban environments due to GPS degradation. This paper proposes a vision-based tracking method with static cameras by utilizing image subtraction and blob detection, which avoids adding additional electromagnetic interferences in the environment with sensors such as radar. The ground-based vision tracker (GBVT) outputs the detected objects' azimuth and elevation angles from unmanned aerial system (UAS) flight tests. Future and ongoing work includes sending the detected objects' azimuth and elevation angles as inputs for an extended Kalman filter (EKF) to estimate the position and velocity of the detected object.


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    Titel :

    Ground-Based Vision Tracker for Advanced Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility


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

    Kongress:

    AIAA SciTech and Technology Forum and Exposition ; 2024 ; Orlando, FL, US


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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