Aircraft steering angle determination
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorsEthan MOSS, Ting Yu AU
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear including: obtaining an input image of the aircraft landing gear; comparing the input image against a plurality of reference images, the plurality of reference images comprising images of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles; determining a most similar reference image, the most similar reference image comprising the reference image of the plurality of reference images most closely matched to the input image; and determining, based at least in part on the most similar reference image, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear, the method comprising:
- obtaining an input image of the aircraft landing gear;
- comparing the input image against a plurality of reference images, the plurality of reference images comprising images of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles;
- determining a most similar reference image, the most similar reference image comprising a reference image of the plurality of reference images most closely matched to the input image;
- and
- determining, based at least in part on the most similar reference image, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
An aircraft controller configured to:
- obtain an image of an aircraft landing gear;
- compare the input image against a plurality of reference images, the plurality of reference images comprising images of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles;
- determine a most similar reference image, the most similar reference image comprising the reference image of the plurality of reference images most closely matched to the input image;
- and
- determine, based at least in part on the most similar reference image, 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;
- an aircraft controller configured to:
- obtain an image of an aircraft landing gear from the imaging device;
- compare the input image against a plurality of reference images, the plurality of reference images comprising images of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles;
- determine a most similar reference image, the most similar reference image comprising the reference image of the plurality of reference images most closely matched to the input image;
- and
- determine, based at least in part on the most similar reference image, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
A method of determining a steering angle of an aircraft landing gear, the method comprising:
- determining a condition affecting the aircraft landing gear;
- selecting, based at least in part on the condition, a first mode of determining the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear or a second mode of determining the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear;
- and
- determining the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear using the selected mode.
A method of determining an aircraft steering angle, the method comprising:
- obtaining image information of an input image of the aircraft landing gear;
- comparing the image information of the input image against a database of image information of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles;
- and
- determining, based at least in part on the image information of the aircraft landing gear at known steering angles, the steering angle of the aircraft landing gear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.