An Improved Far-Field Small Unmanned Aerial System Optical Detection Algorithm

Onboard far-field aircraft detection is needed for safe non-cooperative traffic mitigation for autonomous small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) operations. This work presents an aircraft detect and track pipeline that fuses image differencing and morphological filtering detections for inputs to a Kalm...

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Main Authors: Dolph, Chester, Glaab, Louis, Allen, Bonnie, Consiglio, Maria, Iftekharuddin, Khan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Aircraft Communications And Navigation
detect and track small targets
sense and avoid
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle collision avoidance
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Summary:Onboard far-field aircraft detection is needed for safe non-cooperative traffic mitigation for autonomous small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) operations. This work presents an aircraft detect and track pipeline that fuses image differencing and morphological filtering detections for inputs to a Kalman-based object tracking pipeline. The pipeline is evaluated using two types of flight encounters: 1) motorcopter sUAS vs. fixed-wing sUAS 2) motorcopter sUAS vs general aviation plane.
ISSN:2155-7209
DOI:10.1109/DASC43569.2019.9081609