28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-11.6.2

INTELLIGENT LANDING SYSTEM FOR LANDING UAVS AT UNSURVEYED AIRFIELDS

P. Williams, M. Crump
BAE Systems Australia, Australia

Keywords: uavs, autonomous landing, computer vision

This paper presents flight-test results of a new system that is capable of autonomously recovering a UAV to a previously unvisited airfield. A feasible runway is selected using ERSA data. The Auto-Recovery System locates and tracks the runway using a gimballed camera to provide a precise vision-aided landing.

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