Determining a position of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorTing Yu Au
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method of determining a position of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly. The method includes obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear assembly; determining a region of interest within the image, the region of interest contains the component of the aircraft landing gear assembly; calculating a coordinate of a centroid of the bounding box and comparing the coordinate of the centroid to a corresponding predetermined threshold coordinate to determine the position of the component of the aircraft landing gear assembly.
Claims19
A computer-implemented method of determining a position of a component of an aircraft landing gear assembly of an aircraft, wherein the aircraft landing gear assembly is an assembly of components, the method comprising:
- obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear assembly, wherein the image is generated by an imaging device positioned within a landing gear bay of the aircraft;
- determining a region of interest within the image, the region of interest containing a first component of the components of the aircraft landing gear assembly;
- calculating a coordinate of a centroid of the region of interest;
- comparing the coordinate of the centroid to a corresponding predetermined threshold coordinate, and
- determining a position of the first component of the aircraft landing gear assembly based on the comparison of the coordinate of the centroid to the corresponding predetermined threshold coordinate.
An aircraft controller configured to:
- obtain an image of the aircraft landing gear assembly of an aircraft, wherein aircraft landing gear assembly is an assembly of components and the image is generated by an imaging device positioned within a landing gear bay of the aircraft;
- determine a region of interest within the image, the region of interest containing a first component of the components of the aircraft landing gear assembly;
- calculate a coordinate of a centroid of the region of interest;
- compare the coordinate of the centroid to a corresponding predetermined threshold coordinate,
- determine a position of the first component of the aircraft landing gear assembly based on the comparison of the coordinate to the predetermined threshold coordinate;
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- output an indication of the position of the first component of the aircraft landing gear.
A system for determining a position of a first component of components forming an aircraft landing gear assembly of an aircraft, the system comprising:
- an imaging device within a landing gear bay of the aircraft;
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- an aircraft controller configured to:
- obtain an image of the aircraft landing gear assembly using the imaging device;
- determine a region of interest within the image, the region of interest containing the first component of the aircraft landing gear assembly;
- calculate a coordinate of a centroid of the region of interest;
- compare the coordinate of the centroid to a corresponding predetermined threshold coordinate, and
- determine the position of the first component of the aircraft landing gear assembly based on the comparison of the coordinate to the predetermined threshold coordinate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.