An autonomous carrier landing system design and simulation for unmanned aerial vehicle

Abstract

This paper focuses on the key issues of landing a carrier-based fixed-wing UAV on the aircraft carrier, especially the autonomous landing system design principles, methods and simulation. According to the differences between piloted and unmanned landing, including the distinction of landing on the land and moving carrier, this paper proposes autonomous landing system design issues and requirements. Adaptive deck motion prediction and compensation is used, with appropriate wave-off decision-making method, while an integrated design of the flight control system and automatic thrust control system is used to follow the glide slope precisely. Finally, based on the designs, an autonomous aircraft carrier landing system is completed and simulated with desired performance.

Survey of computer vision algorithms and applications for unmanned aerial vehicles

“…Autonomous Take-off and Landing is a fundamental task not only for VTOL vehicles ( Cocchioni, Mancini, & Longhi, 2014;Gautam, Sujit, & Saripalli, 2014 ) but also for fixed wings UAVs ( Huan, Guoliang, & Jianqiang, 2015;Keke, Qing, & Nong, 2014 ). For visionbased take-off and landing, different solutions have been proposed in order to deal with this problem ( Costa, Greati, Ribeiro, da Silva, & Vieira, 2015;Herissé, Hamel, Mahony, & Russotto, 2012;Lee et al, 2014b;Xiang, Cao, & Wang, 2012 ).…”