Vision-based position and attitude determination for aircraft night landing

Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 84-92

  Chatterji, Gano B ^a,d,e   Menon, Padmanabhan K ^b,e,f   Sridhar, Banavar ^c,e,g  

^a Sterling Software   (United States)

^b OPTIMAL SYNTHESIS INC   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d MS 262 6   (United States)

^e AIAA   (United States)

^f SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MS 262 3   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING; AIRPORT RUNWAYS; ALGORITHMS; ANGLE MEASUREMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SENSORS; KALMAN FILTERING; LIGHTING; POSITION MEASUREMENT; VIDEO CAMERAS; VISION;

NIGHT LANDING; ROLL ATTITUDE ANGLE;

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031673782     PISSN: 07315090     EISSN: 15333884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.4201     Document Type: Article

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