Published November 1, 2002 | Version v1
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Unmanned aircraft navigation for shipboard landing using infrared vision

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This paper addresses the problem of determining the relative position and orientation of an unmanned air vehicle with respect to a ship using three visible points of known separation. The, images of the points are obtained from an onboard infrared camera. The paper develops a numerical solution to this problem. Both simulation and flight test results are presented.

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