In-Flight Tests of Intruder Detection Vision System

Abstract

In the near future, the integration of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles into the common airspace will proceed. The changes taking place mean that the safety of light aircraft, ultralight aircraft and unmanned air vehicles (UAV) will become an increasing problem. The IDAAS project (Intruder Detection And collision Avoidance System) meets the new challenges as it aims to produce technically advanced detection and collision avoidance systems for light and unmanned aerial vehicles. The work discusses selected elements of research and practical tests of the intruder detection vision system, which is part the of IDAAS project. At the outset, the current formal requirements related to the necessity of installing anticollision systems on aircraft are presented. The concept of the IDAAS system and the structure of algorithms related to image processing are also discussed. The main part of the work presents the methodology developed for the needs of dedicated flight tests, its implementation and the results obtained. The initial tests of the IDAAS system carried out on an ultralight aircraft generally indicate the possibility of the effective detection of intruders in the airspace with the use of vision methods, although they also indicated the existence of conditions in which this detection may prove difficult or even impossible.

Status and Trends in Small Aviation Development using Examples from Russia and the USA

“…It should be remembered that aircraft crashes are a serious problem. In particular, "quite a significant number of less well-trained amateur pilots have appeared", as P. Rzucidlo, G. Jaromi, T. Kapuściński, D. Kordos, T. Rogalski and Piotr Szczerba [6]. Therefore, quality training of today's pilots needs special attention.…”

“…The question of the small aircraft industry is relevant throughout the world, so works in this area can be found in a wide range of countries [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Their works address a variety of issues, from the modernization of small aircraft models and increasing the productivity of aircraft building, to the introduction of artificial intelligence systems in aircrafts, improvement of legislation regulating the sphere of small aircraft and the development of infrastructure for ground handling of aircrafts.…”

Low Cost Avionics System for Ultralight Aircraft

“…the use of an external, additional magnetometer) it is possible to use it in low cost ultralightand paraplanes. The next step is to perform flight tests [16]. The devices have independent power supply systems, and it is possible to install them without affecting the aircraft structure.…”

Vision System Measuring the Position of an Aircraft in Relation to the Runway during Landing Approach

“…In order to avoid any inconvenience associated with the preparation of learning materials for the ANNs, the use of synthetic data for this purpose is proposed, which does not require landing approaches on real facilities. A similar approach to the problem of testing the vision system in the simulation environment was used, among others, in [ 20 ], the results of which were confronted with research in a real environment, obtaining satisfactory results [ 21 ]. Later in the paper, it will be demonstrated that synthetic data are capable of replacing material collected during flights.…”