This article details the work of the authors towards the goal of using video processing for autonomous flight control of small unmanned aircraft (UAVs). The work reports on procedures that were designed by the authors to determine the roll of an aircraft from video imagery of the horizon, using video and computing equipment small and light enough to be carried by the aircraft. Theory and result...

In the paper a prototype of a system for automatic landing of aircrafts and helicopters is proposed. The key requirement is to develop a completely autonomous system that does not depend on any kind of infrastructure or equipment, located outside the aircraft (like GPS, ILS, etc.). The idea is to control and navigate the aircraft using images, acquired by the camera, installed on the aircraft. ...

In the present paper, an efficient method for three dimensional aircraft pattern recognition is introduced. In this method, a set of simple area based features extracted from silhouette of aerial vehicles are used to recognize an aircraft type from its optical or infrared images taken by a CCD camera or a FLIR sensor. These images can be taken from any direction and distance relative to the fly...

This article details the work of the authors towards the goal of using video processing for autonomous flight control of small unmanned aircraft (UAVs). The work reports on procedures that were designed by the authors to determine the roll of an aircraft from video imagery of the horizon, using video and computing equipment small and light enough to be carried by the aircraft. Theory and result...

The paper is concerned with conceptual modeling of the new aircraft based on bionical forms. Search visual-graphic calculations of the model under development are presented. 3D modeling of aircraft constructional parts were carried out according to the detailed designs. For 3D surfaces modeling the Koons method is used. Rendering scenes of shaded 3D model of aircraft is presented.

Increasingly more electrical devices are being developed in modern aircraft and will result in an increase in airborne electronic equipment fed by power electronic converters. With aircraft power system being sizable, the logical structure of aircraft power distribution systems, which affects the stability of aircraft power system, is becoming more complex. In this paper, we establish a mathema...

Electronic sets operated on aircraft are usually summarized as “avionic architectures” (for “aviation electronic architecture”). Since the 70s, avionic architectures, composed of digital processing modules and communication buses, are supporting more and more avionic applications such as flight control, flight management, etc. Hence, avionic architectures have become a central component of an a...