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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2015
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Stratford, CT (US);
Hongcheng Wang, Farmington, CT (US);
Ziyou Xiong, Wethersfield, CT (US);
Alan Matthew Finn, Hebron, CT (US);
Christopher Stathis, Hamden, CT (US);
Igor Cherepinsky, Sandy Hook, CT (US);
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION, Stratford, CT (US);
Abstract
A method of autonomous landing of an aircraft in a landing area includes receiving, with the processor, sensor signals related to the landing area via a sensor device; obtaining, with the processor, a template of the landing area in response to the receiving of the sensor signals; matching, with the processor, one or more features of the template with the features of the acquired images of the landing area; and controlling, with the processor, each of the sensor device and aircraft control system independently based on said matching.