Automated Low-Altitude/Nap-of-the-Earth (NOE) rotorcraft flight in adverse weather has been identified as a major technology void by both military and civil agencies because of its direct relationship to the needs of the military's new scout/attack helicopter and to various civilian applications including Emergency Medical Services (EMS). As part of NASA's Aircraft Automation Program, Ames Research Center has identified as a major goal, the automating and advancing of applicable terrain following/terrain avoidance/obstacle avoidance (TF/TA/OA) guidance technologies to a level where NOE rotorcraft flight can be demonstrated in an advanced simulator and, later, in fully automatic flight. Areas of emphasis to date for achieving automatic guidance include real-time sensor blending and the real-time computation of NOE guidance commands. Here, we report on the guidance command generation. The applicability of TF/TA techniques to the NOE problem is described, and simulation results are presented that suggest that automatic NOE can indeed be accomplished.


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    Title :

    Guidance automation for nap-of-the-earth flight


    Additional title:

    Automatische Lenkung fuer niedrigfliegende Flugzeuge


    Contributors:
    Denton, R.V. (author) / Pekelsma, N. (author) / Hagen, M. (author)


    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    6 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 2 Tabellen, 8 Quellen


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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