Ship Deck Tracking and Landing

In this project, we design a helicopter landing system to detect and track a shipdeck.

In this project we develop ship deck tracking and landing sensors and algorithms. These algorithms enable detection and tracking of a landing zone on a ship deck without external infrastructure such a radar guidance system. The algorithms track the visual and/or 3D appearance of the ship to compute a 6 degree of freedom position, orientation, and velocities. The challenges are to determine the position and orientation of the deck with high accuracy.