26th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
including the 8th AIAA Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations (ATIO) Conference
14 - 19 September 2008, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Paper ICAS 2008-6.8.2 INVITED

POTENTIAL ACTIVE-VISION CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT

E. Johnson
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Keywords: UAV, Vision, Tracking, Sense-and-Avoid

This paper discusses the generalized visual tracking problem, or tracking of objects/features based on real-time imagery for pursuit, evasion, or maintaining formation flight. Estimating target range is challenging – and a number of approaches are discussed. Flight tests of vision-based formation flight between two aircraft are described.

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