Aircraft Navigation

State-of-the-Art in Vision Technologies

Rangachar Kasturi, PhDComputer Science & Engineering

University of South Florida

UAV Navigation Combining motion and depth for UAV

navigation

University of Southern California 2005

Horizon Detection for Navigation

Using image processing to automatically detect navigational cues

UC Berkeley 2005

Exploring Unknown Terrains using UAV

Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems, Australia

Mapping terrain in on-going reconnaissance

2004

Vision through Fog and Haze Study of atmospheric scattering effects to

remove bad weather

Shree K. Nayar Columbia University

2003

Millimeter-Wave Imaging Radars

Generate a pilot-perspective image of a runway area even in zero-visibility conditions, and without ground support

Georgia Tech

Similar Technology is also used in automatic missile guidance systems

Navigation in Urban Areas

Bio-inspired motion-basedmethods for visual navigation

Animat Lab, France 2006

Obstacle Avoidance for Urban Aircraft Navigation

2007

University of South Florida

Vision-based Aircraft Surveillance

Event Interactions: Person-Person Person-Vehicle Person-Facility Vehicle-Facility

Activities: Loitering Trespassing Object Left Behind Etc…

DARPA VIRAT BAA08-20 2008

Infrared imaging

NASA UAV Southern California wildfires (2007)

capturing thermal-infrared imagery to aid firefighters battling the remaining uncontrolled blazes

Virtual Reality & Surveillance

2006

Modified Concept: notify pilots and controller at the same time

ASDE-X 2007Runway Incursions – The Leading Aviation Safety Issue

Towards Automatic Collision Avoidance

Use of 3D Geometric Approach

Cooperative Approach

2006

2006

UAV & MAV Swarms

Defense & SurveillanceFuture battlefields are likely to be filled with UAV or MAV

monitoring the action and engaging on enemy targets