Aircraft attitude estimation from horizon video |
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| Authors: | Cornall T.D. Egan G.K. Price A. |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia; |
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| Abstract: | Measurement of aircraft attitude is a necessary step for autonomous control of aircraft. Autonomous aircraft are useful for a range of military and civilian purposes. A method of very low computational complexity is presented that allows the pitch and roll angles of an aircraft to be measured onboard an unmanned aircraft from real-time video of the horizon. This method can be used for maintaining level flight, and provides a degree of automatic terrain avoidance. |
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