Research on the visual/inertial integrated carrier landing guidance algorithm

Abstract

In this article, we describe a visual/inertial integrated carrier landing guidance algorithm for aircraft carrier landing operations. The airborne vision system and the inertial navigation system are employed as sensors to obtain feature points of carrier runway as well as the aircraft inertial measurements. In this algorithm, visual and inertial information are integrated, and the Pose from Orthographic Projection and Scaling with Iterations algorithm is utilized to estimate aircraft position and carrier motion. A simulation was constructed validating this algorithm, and the results of this simulation show satisfactory accuracy as well as high efficiency in carrier landing guidance.

Vision System Measuring the Position of an Aircraft in Relation to the Runway during Landing Approach

“…This paper presents a vision system to measure the position relative to the runway during the approach to landing. These topics have been addressed by numerous researchers [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The runway detection process itself, based on color and features, is described in the article “Robust Method to Detect and Track the Runway during Aircraft Landing Using Color Segmentation and Runway Features” [ 15 ].…”

A pretrained proximal policy optimization algorithm with reward shaping for aircraft guidance to a moving destination in three-dimensional continuous space

“…With the development of command and control technologies, various guidance methods have been proposed in aircraft guidance research. A visual/inertial integrated carrier landing guidance algorithm is presented, 1 which can obtain satisfactory accuracy results with less execution time. Wang et al 2 establish a pilot behavior model for carrier landing operations based on realistic mechanisms and strategies.…”