UBM is working on autonomous vision systems for aircraft for more than one and a half decades by now. The systems developed use standard on-board sensors and two additional monochrome cameras for state estimation of the aircraft. A common task is to detect and track a runway for an autonomous landing approach. The cameras have different focal lengths and are mounted on a special pan and tilt camera platform. As the platform is equipped with two resolvers and two gyros it can be stabilized inertially and the system has the ability to actively focus on the objects of highest interest. For verification and testing, UBM has a special HWIL simulation facility for real-time vision systems. Central part of this simulation facility is a three axis motion simulator (DBS). It is used to realize the computed orientation in the rotational degrees of freedom of the aircraft. The two-axis camera platform with its two CCD-cameras is mounted on the inner frame of the DBS and is pointing at the cylindrical projection screen with a synthetic view displayed on it. As the performance of visual perception systems has increased significantly in recent years, a new, more powerful synthetic vision system was required. A single Onyx2 machine replaced all the former simulation computers. This computer is powerful enough to simulate the aircraft, to generate a high-resolution synthetic view, to control the DBS and to communicate with the image processing computers. Further improvements are the significantly reduced delay times for closed loop simulations and the elimination of communication overhead.


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    Title :

    Single-computer HWIL simulation facility for real-time vision systems


    Contributors:
    Furst, S. (author) / Werner, S. (author) / Dickmanns, E.D. (author)


    Publication date :

    1998


    Size :

    9 Seiten, 13 Quellen




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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