Aircraft steering angle determination
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorEthan MOSS
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Abstract
A method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear including: obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear; performing edge detection on the image; determining, based at least in part on an edge obtained by the edge detection, a relative position of a component of the aircraft landing gear; and determining, based at least in part on the relative position of the component, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
Claims20
A method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear, the method comprising:
- obtaining an image of the aircraft landing gear;
- performing edge detection on the image;
- determining, based at least in part on an edge obtained by the edge detection, a relative position of a component of the aircraft landing gear;
- and
- determining, based at least in part on the relative position of the component, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
An aircraft controller configured to:
- obtain an image of an aircraft landing gear;
- perform edge detection on the image;
- determine, based at least in part on an edge obtained by the edge detection, a relative position of a component of the aircraft landing gear;
- and
- determine, based at least in part on the relative position of the component, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
A system for determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear, the system comprising:
- an imaging device;
- and
- an aircraft controller configured to:
- obtain an image of the aircraft landing gear from the at least one imaging device;
- perform edge detection on the image;
- determine, based at least in part on an edge obtained by the edge detection, a relative position of a component of the aircraft landing gear;
- and
- determine, based at least in part on the relative position of the component, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
A method of identifying an aircraft steering angle, the method comprising:
- obtaining an image of an aircraft landing gear assembly;
- performing image processing on the image to determine an image feature, the image feature associated with a first aircraft component;
- identifying, based at least in part on the image feature, a position of the first component of the assembly relative to a second component of the assembly;
- and
- identifying, based at least in part on the identified position, the aircraft steering angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.