The need for handoff capability arises when a target is acquired with an aircraft sensor (such as forward looking infrared (FLIR)) and it is desired to transfer the target position data to a second imaging sensor associated with an on-board missile, or possibly an-other aircraft. Westinghouse has developed scene-matching algorithms which can accomplish this task. The autonomous handoff problem places several demands on the scene-matching algorithm. For reasons of survivability and successful attack, target transfer should be accomplished within a fraction of a second. For tracking purposes a precision of less than one pixel (TV line) is required. Because of the boresight alignment characteristics of the two sensors, handoff must be possible if the initial misregistration of the two sensor fields of view is as much as half of the second sensor field of view (FOV). A laboratory demonstration of han•off capability has been implemented by Westinghouse as a result of an Army problem. The paper will describe the handoff algorithms, the test procedure, and the results achieved to date.


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    Title :

    Autonomous Target Handoff From An Airborne Sensor To A Missile Seeker


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Electro-Optical Technology for Autonomous Vehicles ; 1980 ; Los Angeles,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1980-04-24





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English