This paper presents a visual/inertial integrated guidance method for UAV shipboard landing.
The airborne vision system is utilized to track infrared cooperated targets on the ship and …

Modeling and simulation of the ship–helicopter dynamic interface is still a challenging
technical problem despite the great development in the decades of research. Herein, a …

High fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations of ship airwakes are often performed
with time accurate, turbulence resolving methods, such as large eddy simulation or …

In the present work, unsteady effects present in a ship airwake are further analyzed. The
effort is performed in the context of simulation of helicopter launch and recovery operations …

The influence of a neutral atmospheric boundary layer on a one-way coupled dynamic
interface simulation is evaluated. The effort is performed within the context of time-accurate …

Implicit large eddy simulations (ILES) of two different Royal Navy ships have been
conducted as part of the UK Ship/Air Interface Frame-work project using a recently …

This Paper describes how flight simulation has been used to investigate helicopter recovery
operations to the deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth, the United Kingdom's new aircraft carrier. A …

This paper presents a vision/radar/INS integrated guidance system for shipboard landing.
The vision system on the aircraft tracks landmarks on the ship and outputs their coordinates …

An indispensable tool for the development of a carrier landing control system is the
linearized kinetics model of carrier-based aircraft, which is required to accurately describe …

Research on the air flow disturbances in the aircraft carrier environment has gained
prominence in recent times. However, there is presently no representative carrier model …