Low-Cost On-Board Guidance Aid for Landing on Small Airports in Low Visibility and Adverse Weather

Sachs, Gottfried; Schuck, Falko; Holzapfel, Florian

doi:10.2514/6.2008-6645

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“…The flight inside the virtual tunnel marked by the 3D frame increases the probability of an error-free landing in poor or even zero visibility. A kind of such a tunnel is already realized in systems known as synthetic vision systems (SVS), but these systems provide non-stereo 3D virtual reality without the visual contact with the real world [6,7]. Smart-View SVS developed by Honeywell [2] has AR display combining infrared camera data with virtual reality, but it also supports only non-stereo 3D and 2D (as well as Rockwell Collins's EVS which allows showing monochrome 3D terrain models or infrared camera picture).…”

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3D+Stereo Augmented Reality for Landing Systems Feasibility and Experiment Design

Gorbunov¹

2012

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This paper considers the possibility of creating an aircraft landing system (LS) with the augmented reality (AR) 3D+stereo interface (patent pending). Such a LS system can be used as a supplementary navigation resource and has the following advantages in comparison with the existing solutions: improved spatial navigation, shirt pocket size, autonomous power supply, minimal training, and low cost. The design of experiments to prove the effectiveness of an AR 3D+stereo interface is described.

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3D+Stereo Augmented Reality for Landing Systems Feasibility and Experiment Design

Gorbunov¹

2012

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Longitudinal Robust Controller for Excellent Handling Qualities Design of a General Aviation Aircraft using QFT

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Baier

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AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference

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Handling Qualities improvement by means of active Fly-by-Wire Flight Control Systems has been applied successfully since decades. In contrast small general aviation aircraft are still missing such valuable pilot assistance in terms of the manifold benefits offered by advanced Active Fly-by-Wire Flight Control Systems featuring a wide range of functionalities and applications. In order to bring such a system to a real aircraft as well as allowing the system to be certified in future, controller design layout must be tailored to the general aviation aircraft constraints, e.g. available actuators, sensors and sensor signals, mechanical linkage design, control surface deflection limitations and aircraft dynamics. E.g. in order to minimize the number of sensor signals, the controller should be designed featuring maximum robustness and hence, to yield the capability to operate with fixed gains (not requiring any velocity/dynamic pressure based gain scheduling) both for the whole flight envelope as well as any configuration changes with respect to flaps or landing gear. For that purpose the Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) has been applied to the controller design in order to meet the desired handling qualities criteria, including the Control Anticipation Parameter (CAP), Neal Smith, C-Star (C*), Drop Back and others.Consequently, an integrated approach is presented which incorporates and combines all these criteria. Moreover the often neglected part of the inceptor and feel system design, respectively, is addressed in order to provide excellent handling for the pilot. The presented technology work is applied in a joint Research project of an Austrian aircraft manufacturer and the Technische Universität München.

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Low-Cost On-Board Guidance Aid for Landing on Small Airports in Low Visibility and Adverse Weather

Cited by 2 publications

References 5 publications

3D+Stereo Augmented Reality for Landing Systems Feasibility and Experiment Design

3D+Stereo Augmented Reality for Landing Systems Feasibility and Experiment Design

Longitudinal Robust Controller for Excellent Handling Qualities Design of a General Aviation Aircraft using QFT

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