Ground to air testing of a fused optical-radar aircraft detection and tracking system

C Dolph, T Lombaerts, E Kawamura… - AIAA SCITECH 2022 …, 2022 - arc.aiaa.org
View Video Presentation: https://doi. org/10.2514/6.2022-0498. vid Onboard detection and
tracking capability are integral to the sensing component in collision avoidance systems …

Detection and Tracking of Aircraft from Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

CV Dolph, C Minwalla, LJ Glaab, MJ Logan… - Journal of Aerospace …, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
Onboard far-field aircraft detection is needed for safe non-cooperative traffic mitigation in
autonomous small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) operations. Machine vision systems …

Assessing Performance of Radar and Visual Sensing Techniques for Ground-To-Air Surveillance in Advanced Air Mobility

F Vitiello, F Causa, R Opromolla… - 2023 IEEE/AIAA …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The safe integration of Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (UAV) within the civil airspace is of great
interest to NASA's Advanced Air Mobility project, which envisions high density of operations …

Modeling a prototype optical collision avoidance sensor for unmanned aerial vehicles

C Minwalla, M Tekeste, K Watters… - SENSORS, 2010 …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sense and avoid systems for civilian unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) are essential in
controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR). A prototype optical sensor accomplishes …

Ground-Based Vision Tracker for Advanced Air Mobility and Urban Air Mobility

E Kawamura, K Kannan, T Lombaerts… - AIAA SciTech 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM) require aircraft surveillance and
monitoring for safety and security. Persistent tracking of flying objects provides Air Traffic …

Detection and tracking of non-cooperative flying obstacles using low SWaP radar and optical sensors: an experimental analysis

F Vitiello, F Causa, R Opromolla… - … on Unmanned Aircraft …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Improvements in low altitude, non-cooperative sense and avoid are of major interest for
collision hazard mitigation within the UTM/UAM/U-Space framework. In this regard, the …

Real‐Time Hardware‐in‐the‐Loop Laboratory Testing for Multisensor Sense and Avoid Systems

G Fasano, D Accardo, L Forlenza… - International Journal …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper focuses on a hardware‐in‐the‐loop facility aimed at real‐time testing of
architectures and algorithms of multisensor sense and avoid systems. It was developed …

Experimental validation of camera-based maritime collision avoidance for autonomous urban passenger ferries

ØK Helgesen, EH Thyri, EF Brekke, A Stahl, M Breivik - 2023 - ntnuopen.ntnu.no
Maritime collision avoidance systems rely on accurate state estimates of other objects in the
environment from a tracking system. Traditionally, this understanding is generated using one …

Passive, long-range detection of aircraft: Towards a field deployable sense and avoid system

D Dey, C Geyer, S Singh, M Digioia - … and Service Robotics: Results of the …, 2010 - Springer
Introduction Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) typically fly blind with operators in distant
locations. Most UAVs are too small to carry a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) …

Cooperative navigation and visual tracking with passive ranging for UAV flight in GNSS-challenging environments

F Causa, R Opromolla, G Fasano - … International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses an approach conceived to improve navigation performance of small
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in GNSS-challenging environments by exploiting …