The purpose of this thesis effort was to develop and test a brightness invariant recognition algorithm that would locate and identify the half-scale mock up of a Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation (UARRSI) aerial refueling port in different lighting conditions. This was accomplished by developing a brightness invariant port recognition of identifiable attributes of the refueling port to locate and identify the UARRSI port. Based on this approach, a brightness invariant port recognition system (BIPRS) was demonstrated which identified the refueling receptacle in different lightening conditions. The BIPRS was also invariant to orientation and size of the UARRSI port. The BIPRS demonstrated the feasibility of the autonomous aircraft refueling task, and provides an incentive for additional research in autonomous robot applications.
Brightness Invariant Port Recognition for Robotic Aircraft Refueling
1990
90 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aeronautics , Brightness , Refueling in flight , Robotics , Aircraft , Airports , Algorithms , Orientation(Direction) , Robots , Self operation , Theses , UARRSI(Universal Aerial Refueling Receptacle Slipway Installation) , BIPRS(Brightness Invariant Port System) , Jet aircraft , Edge detection , Line merging , Knowledge driven recognition , Size invariance , Rotation invariance
Robotic Aircraft Refueling: A Concept Demonstration
NTIS | 1990
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Tema Archive | 1990
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