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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
May. 09, 2023
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Haden Smith, Guyton, GA (US);
Deepak Khosla, Camarillo, CA (US);
Leon Nguyen, Santa Ana, CA (US);
Fan Hin Hung, Los Angeles, WA (US);
Justin Hatcher, Sumner, WA (US);
Daniel O'Shea, Seattle, WA (US);
Shawn Chamberlain, Federal Way, WA (US);
Luis-Alberto Santiago, Edmonds, WA (US);
Jung Soon Jang, Bellevue, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is methods, systems, and aircraft for performing image analysis for aiding refueling operations. A tanker aircraft includes a single camera, a refueling boom, a camera configured to generate a 2D image of the refueling boom, a processor, and non-transitory computer readable storage media storing code. The code being executable by the processor to perform operations comprising receiving the 2D image from the single camera, determining 2D keypoints of the refueling boom located within the 2D image based on a predefined point model of the refueling boom, determining keypoints in 3D space based on the 2D keypoints to produce 3D keypoints, determining a 6DOF pose using the 2D keypoints and the 3D keypoints, and estimating a position of a tip of the refueling boom based on the 6DOF pose.