Principles of Vision-Enabled Autonomous Flight - Softcover

John N. Sanders-Reed

9781510646148: Principles of Vision-Enabled Autonomous Flight

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ISBN 10: 1510646140 ISBN 13: 9781510646148

Publisher: SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2021

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This book considers three basic questions: 1. Why are vision systems fundamental and critical to autonomous flight? 2. What are the vision system tasks required for autonomous flight? 3. How can those tasks be approached? It addresses the role of vision systems for autonomous operations and discusses the critical tasks required of a vision system, including taxi, takeoff, en-route navigation, detect and avoid, and landing, as well as formation flight or approach and docking at a terminal or with other vehicles. These tasks are analyzed to develop field of view, resolution, latency, and other sensing requirements and to understand when one sensor can be used for multiple applications. Airspace classifications, landing visibility categories, decision height criteria, and typical runway dimensions are introduced. The book provides an overview of sensors and phenomenology from visible through infrared, extending into the radar bands and including both passive and active systems. Human visual system performance is discussed as a comparison benchmark. System architectures are discussed, including distributed aperture sensor systems and multiuse sensors. Finally, various algorithms for extracting information from sensor data are examined, such as moving target detection for detect and avoid, shape from motion, multisensor triangulation, model-based pose estimation, wire and cable detection, and geo-location techniques.

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About the Author

Jack Sanders-Reed spent thirty years developing and flight-testing advanced vision system technology, including novel sensors, distributed aperture sensor systems, intelligent agents for moving target detection, cable and wire detection, and automatic target recognition. As a Boeing Technical Fellow and then Chief Technologist for the Boeing Research & Technology, Avionics Systems Technology organization, Sanders-Reed led enterprise technology roadmap development and planning for machine perception and for mission and vehicle system architectures as well as supporting the sensors and apertures roadmap. He was the company lead for automated air-to-air refueling, working on vision system solutions for both boom/receptacle and probe/drogue refueling. Sanders-Reed is internationally recognized for his more than 30 peerreviewed and published conference papers and 6 patents, serving as conference chair for SPIE advanced vision system conferences (7 years), and as an invited lecturer at MIT as part of a high-speed imaging and analysis short course (18 years). He is also a Fellow of SPIE and co-author of the optics handbook Photonics Rules of Thumb. He is a developer of the Visual Fusion motionanalysis software package. Sanders-Reed’s career has included work in digital radiography and medical imaging (Picker x-ray), laser capillary ripple spectroscopy, and 5 years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory developing maximum-likelihood detection theory and multi-target tracking algorithms. He joined and helped grow a small business (SVS, Inc.) from 15 to 140 people prior to its purchase by Boeing in 2000. He holds a Ph.D. in physics from Case Western Reserve University and was top graduate from the Northeastern University High-Technology MBA program. He currently lives on a mountaintop at 7600 feet in a national forest.

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