Autonomous Target Handoff From An Airborne Sensor To A Missile Seeker

Leo E. Kossa; Glenn E. Tisdale

doi:10.1117/12.958542

24 April 1980 Autonomous Target Handoff From An Airborne Sensor To A Missile Seeker

Leo E. Kossa, Glenn E. Tisdale

Proceedings Volume 0219, Electro-Optical Technology for Autonomous Vehicles; (1980) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958542
Event: 1980 Los Angeles Technical Symposium, 1980, Los Angeles, United States

Abstract

The need for handoff capability arises when a target is acquired with an aircraft sensor (such as forward looking infrared (FLIR)) and it is desired to transfer the target position data to a second imaging sensor associated with an on-board missile, or possibly an-other aircraft. Westinghouse has developed scene-matching algorithms which can accomplish this task. The autonomous handoff problem places several demands on the scene-matching algorithm. For reasons of survivability and successful attack, target transfer should be accomplished within a fraction of a second. For tracking purposes a precision of less than one pixel (TV line) is required. Because of the boresight alignment characteristics of the two sensors, handoff must be possible if the initial misregistration of the two sensor fields of view is as much as half of the second sensor field of view (FOV). A laboratory demonstration of hanÃ¢â‚¬Â¢off capability has been implemented by Westinghouse as a result of an Army problem. The paper will describe the handoff algorithms, the test procedure, and the results achieved to date.

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Leo E. Kossa and Glenn E. Tisdale "Autonomous Target Handoff From An Airborne Sensor To A Missile Seeker", Proc. SPIE 0219, Electro-Optical Technology for Autonomous Vehicles, (24 April 1980); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958542

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