Method and system for facilitating autonomous landing of aerial vehicles on a surface
AssigneeSaab AB
InventorDaniel Andersson
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Abstract
A system for facilitating autonomous landing of aerial vehicles on a surface. A beam emitter is directed downwards. A control module is configured to govern the vehicle. A processor processes image data. The beam emitter is arranged to emit simultaneously at least four beams directed towards the surface in order to project a pattern thereon. One beam emitter of the at least four beam emitters is placed in the center. An image capturing module captures subsequent images of the pattern.
Claims14
An electro-optical landing system for facilitating autonomous landing of aerial vehicles on a surface, the system comprising:
- at least four beam emitters directed downwards, wherein the beam emitters are arranged to emit simultaneously at least four beams directed towards the surface in order to project a pattern thereon, wherein one beam emitter of the at least four beam emitters is placed in a center of the at least four beam emitters with other of the at least four beam emitters arranged about the center;
- a control module configured to govern the vehicle;
- an image capturing module configured to capture subsequent images of the pattern;
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- a processor configured to process image data.
A landing facilitation method for facilitating autonomous landing of aerial vehicles on a surface comprising beam emitters directed downwards and a control module configured to govern the vehicle, the method comprising:
- emitting simultaneously at least four beams directed towards the surface in order to project a pattern thereon, wherein one beam of the at least four beams is emitted from one beam emitting emitter placed in a center of the beam emitters with other of the at least four beam emitters arranged about the center;
- capturing subsequent images of the pattern;
- processing image data of the captured images;
- storing the processed image data;
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- governing the vehicle by the use of the processed image data in order to keep the vehicle parallel to the surface and land thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.