28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 23 - 28 September 2012, Brisbane, Australia
Paper ICAS 2012-11.8.3


EXTRACTING DECK TREND TO PLAN DESCENT TRAJECTORY FOR SAFE LANDING OF UAVS

X. Yang, L. M. Alvarez
ARCAA, QUT, Australia

Keywords: rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle; extended kalman filter; prony analysis

This paper presents a systematic framework to estimate deck trend when a rotary-wing UAV approaches a moving deck. An extended Kalman filter is developed to fuse data for estimation of unknown ship positions. Deck trend is extracted using the proposed recursive Prony Analysis procedure and a novel dominant-mode selection principle.


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