Videogrammetric Determination of Aircraft Position and Attitude for Vision-Based Autonomous Landing
Tianshu Liu, Gary A. Fleming · 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit · 2006
This paper describes the videogrammetric methods for determining the position and attitude of a vision-based landing aircraft in real time mainly based on the runway edges on the ground. Computational simulations have been made to evaluate the accuracy of the methods and identify the major error sources. The developed algorithms can be incorporated into not only a virtual reality simulation system for aircraft landing, but also a real flight control system for small aircraft. ⋅