Autonomous and automatic landing method and system
US9260180B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 23, 2014 |
| Grant date | Feb 16, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 23, 2034 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G5/54
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for automatic landing of an aircraft on a landing runway, including an on-board video camera intended to take images of the ground, image processor to extract from these images visual features of the landing runway, guidance system determining guidance commands of the aircraft to bring it into a nominal approach plane and to align it with the axis of the landing runway, from the respective positions of the visual features of the landing runway, in at least one of the images, where the guidance commands are supplied to a flight control computer.
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