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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Airbus Operations (S.a.s.), Toulouse, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Airbus Operations (S.A.S.), Toulouse, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B64C 13/16 (2006.01); G08G 5/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B64C 13/16 (2013.01); G05D 1/0676 (2013.01); G08G 5/025 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for automatic landing of an aircraft on a landing runway, including an on-board video camera intended to take images of the ground, image processor to extract from these images visual features of the landing runway, guidance system determining guidance commands of the aircraft to bring it into a nominal approach plane and to align it with the axis of the landing runway, from the respective positions of the visual features of the landing runway, in at least one of the images, where the guidance commands are supplied to a flight control computer.