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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