A survey of autonomous vision-based see and avoid for unmanned aircraft systems

A Mcfadyen, L Mejias - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper provides a comprehensive review of the vision-based See and Avoid problem for
unmanned aircraft. The unique problem environment and associated constraints are …

State of the art of image-aided navigation techniques for aircraft approach and landing

J Vezinet, AC Escher, A Guillet, C Macabiau - Proceedings of the 2013 …, 2013 - ion.org
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) are
currently the main navigation systems for aircraft. INS navigation is based on dead …

Evaluation of display methods for teleoperation of road vehicles

FE Chucholowski - Journal of Unmanned System Technology, 2016 - ojs.unsysdigital.com
During teleoperation of road vehicles, live images from the vehicle are sent to an operator
via a cellular connection, who then inputs his control demands. Time delays resulting from …

[HTML][HTML] Positioning of aircraft relative to unknown runway with delayed image data, airdata and inertial measurement fusion

T Gróf, P Bauer, Y Watanabe - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
This work addresses the challenge of providing precise runway-relative position, velocity
and orientation reference to a landing aircraft based on monocular camera and low-cost …

Automatic landing on aircraft carrier by visual servoing

L Coutard, F Chaumette… - 2011 IEEE/RSJ …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The landing on carrier is a very difficult task even for trained pilots. This paper presents a
method to land automatically using aircraft sensors and three visual features inspired by …

Nonlinear image-based visual servo controller for the flare maneuver of fixed-wing aircraft using optical flow

P Serra, R Cunha, T Hamel, C Silvestre… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a nonlinear image-based visual servo controller for the flare phase of
the landing maneuver of a fixed-wing aircraft in the presence of wind disturbances. Optical …

Visual estimation of deviations for the civil aircraft landing

V Gibert, F Plestan, L Burlion, J Boada-Bauxell… - Control engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new scheme for the visual estimation of deviation of a system with
respect to an object for which no feature is known (position, dimensions,…). This scheme is …

Keeping a ground point in the camera field of view of a landing UAV

L Burlion, H De Plinval - 2013 IEEE International Conference …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a key feature for vision based automatic landing of a UAV: the addition
to a given control law of the constraint that a given ground point be maintained in the camera …

Landing on a moving target using image-based visual servo control

P Serra, R Cunha, T Hamel… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the problem of landing a Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL)
quadrotor using image-based visual servo control. Observable features on a flat target plane …

Nonlinear observers in vision system: Application to civil aircraft landing

V Gibert, L Burlion, A Chriette, J Boada… - 2015 European …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new pose estimation solution for perspective vision system is presented and
applied to a civil aircraft landing phase. Vision sensor is used to overcome the need for …