A vision-based navigation method that does not depend on GPS signal for landing AAM aircraft. The Vision-Based Approach and Landing System (VALS) uses images captured from a camera for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) approach and landing in GPS-denied environments, which offers a potential Alternative Position, Navigation, and Timing (APNT) solution. VALS utilizes a computer vision algorithm called Coplanar Pose from Orthography and Scaling with Iterations (COPOSIT) to estimate the position and orientation of the camera based on coplanar features. VALS also includes an extended Kalman filter that uses IMU measurements in a prediction step and the COPOSIT estimation results in a correction element. Combining IMU with vision creates a sensor fusion navigation solution for GPS-denied environments.


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    Title :

    VISION-BASED APPROACH AND LANDING SYSTEM



    Publication date :

    2024-10-31


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B64D Ausrüstung für Flugzeuge , EQUIPMENT FOR FITTING IN OR TO AIRCRAFT / G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / G06F ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING , Elektrische digitale Datenverarbeitung / G06T Bilddatenverarbeitung oder Bilddatenerzeugung allgemein , IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL



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