Due to the portability and anti-interference ability,vision-based shipborne aircraft automatic landing systems have attracted the attention of researchers.In this paper,a Monocular Camera and Laser Range Finder(MC-LRF...Due to the portability and anti-interference ability,vision-based shipborne aircraft automatic landing systems have attracted the attention of researchers.In this paper,a Monocular Camera and Laser Range Finder(MC-LRF)-based pose measurement system is designed for shipborne aircraft automatic landing.First,the system represents the target ship using a set of sparse landmarks,and a two-stage model is adopted to detect landmarks on the target ship.The rough 6D pose is measured by solving a Perspective-n-Point problem.Then,once the rough pose is measured,a region-based pose refinement is used to continuously track the 6D pose in the subsequent image sequences.To address the low accuracy of monocular pose measurement in the depth direction,the designed system adopts a laser range finder to obtain an accurate range value.The measured rough pose is iteratively optimized using the accurate range measurement.Experimental results on synthetic and real images show that the system achieves robust and precise pose measurement of the target ship during automatic landing.The measurement means error is within 0.4in rotation,and 0.2%in translation,meeting the requirements for automatic fixed-wing aircraft landing.展开更多
基金co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,China(No.12272404)the Postgraduate Research Innovation Project of Hunan Province of China,China(No.CX20210016).
文摘Due to the portability and anti-interference ability,vision-based shipborne aircraft automatic landing systems have attracted the attention of researchers.In this paper,a Monocular Camera and Laser Range Finder(MC-LRF)-based pose measurement system is designed for shipborne aircraft automatic landing.First,the system represents the target ship using a set of sparse landmarks,and a two-stage model is adopted to detect landmarks on the target ship.The rough 6D pose is measured by solving a Perspective-n-Point problem.Then,once the rough pose is measured,a region-based pose refinement is used to continuously track the 6D pose in the subsequent image sequences.To address the low accuracy of monocular pose measurement in the depth direction,the designed system adopts a laser range finder to obtain an accurate range value.The measured rough pose is iteratively optimized using the accurate range measurement.Experimental results on synthetic and real images show that the system achieves robust and precise pose measurement of the target ship during automatic landing.The measurement means error is within 0.4in rotation,and 0.2%in translation,meeting the requirements for automatic fixed-wing aircraft landing.