Fast algorithm for image-based ranging

P. K.A. Menon; Gano B. Chatterji; Banavar Sridhar

doi:10.1117/12.45635

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1 July 1991 Fast algorithm for image-based ranging

P. K.A. Menon; Gano B. Chatterji; Banavar Sridhar

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Proceedings Volume 1478, Sensors and Sensor Systems for Guidance and Navigation; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45635
Event: Orlando '91, 1991, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Image-based ranging has emerged as a critical issue in the low altitude operation of flight vehicles such as rotorcraft and planetary landers. These flight regimes require ranging systems for recovering the geometry of the terrain and obstacles for use with guidance algorithms. The development of a ranging equation combining image irradiance together with various order spatial partial derivatives and the vehicle motion parameters is discussed. The ranging equation is in the form of a polynomial in scene depth. Two-dimensional linear filters are then used to compute the coefficients of this polynomial to result in a fast image-based ranging algorithm. Performance of the algorithm is demonstrated using laboratory images.

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P. K.A. Menon, Gano B. Chatterji, and Banavar Sridhar "Fast algorithm for image-based ranging", Proc. SPIE 1478, Sensors and Sensor Systems for Guidance and Navigation, (1 July 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.45635

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