摘要:
The present invention relates to electro-optic guided missile systems and, in particular, it concerns systems and methods providing enhanced navigation capabilities based on ego-motion processing of seeker images. The missile system comprising: a missile; a seeker located at a nose portion of said missile, said seeker comprising an electro-optic imaging sensor; and a control arrangement for steering the missile along a flight path to a target, characterized in that the missile system further comprises: a navigation subsystem receiving images from said imaging sensor, said navigation subsystem being configured to: co-process a plurality of said images from said imaging sensor to derive ego-motion of said missile relative to a region viewed by said imaging sensor; derive from said ego-motion a calculated target direction from said missile to a target.
摘要:
A method for planning and launching two or more missiles, to be included in the same mission, and where this is done from one or more aircraft in such a way that the missiles arrive at same target approximately at the same time without interfering with each other on the way to the target. The planning of the mission is performed by sending a set of identical mission data to the missiles prior to launch; letting each missile be assigned a unique identity, letting each missile calculate identical trajectories and a unique offset to this, in one or more of four dimensions, where a resulting offset trajectory is unique for each missile and based on the identical mission data and unique identity, and launching the missiles included in the same mission.
摘要:
A method of automated scan compensation in a target acquisition system for reducing areas of potential threat surrounding an aircraft. The target acquisition system is located on an aircraft and adapted to receive data from a plurality of sensors. The target acquisition system includes a scanning device with adjustable scan limits for scanning a desired area in the vicinity of the aircraft. The method involves determining the aircraft's current position, altitude, and heading. The terrain in the vicinity of the aircraft is then scanned and a line of sight between the aircraft and the scanned terrain is determined. Changes in the terrain which prevent other areas of the terrain in the vicinity of the aircraft from being scanned are also determined. The method then involves determining adjustments to the scan limits on the target acquisition system to reduce the size of the unscanned areas, and adjusting the scan limits as the aircraft flies over the terrain.
摘要:
A technique for deriving correction signals for inertial instruments on a missile, such as an intercontinental ballistic or a cruise missile, is shown to include: a radar operative in a synthetic aperture mode when the missile approaches a predetermined area containing at least three separate fixed terrain features whose radar signatures (as observed from a preselected position) have been predetermined and stored on the missile; successively illuminating each one of such features and comparing the actual radar signals with the stored radar signatures; and deriving correction signals for the inertial instruments in accordance with the difference between the actual and stored radar signals.
摘要:
A guidance method which enables a moving body to be guided to a predetermined location by allowing the body to view its surroundings and to compare the viewed scene with a reference pattern stored on the body. A number of individual reference patterns are stored, and each reference pattern corresponds to an area of the surroundings which is very much smaller than the field of view and thus the body identifies its position by correlating its field of view with one of the reference patterns. To enable the body to identify its position, even if it deviates from an expected path, a number of reference patterns are laterally displaced from the expected path. The extent of the lateral displacements reduces with decreasing distance from a predetermined location to which the body is to be guided.
摘要:
A terrain-contour-matching guidance method is disclosed in which topographic reference data are made to include the same systematic errors which altitude measurement of an unmanned flight is expected to produce. Speed/course and general flight path tracking is operated on a higher resolution.
摘要:
A selected area of an arbitrary image is scanned to derive analog video signals which are filtered and converted to binary signals which are compared with a signal representative of a reference image to produce a signal indicative of differences occurring between the scanned and reference images.
摘要:
1. In a map matching system wherein a live map is compared with a reference map, the steps of dividing said maps into predetermined numbers of live and reference area elements, respectively, assigning numbers to said area elements so that the numerical difference between the numbers assigned to any two elements of a single map is the same as that between the numbers assigned to any other pair of elements of that map which have the same relative position to each other as said two elements, selecting the live elements that have a predetermined characteristic, comparing the number assigned to said selected live elements with the number assigned to predetermined reference elements which are known to have said characteristic, and determining when the numerical difference between the number assigned to one of said selected live elements and the number assigned to one of said predetermined reference elements is the same as the numerical difference between the number assigned to another of said live elements and the number assigned to another of said predetermined reference elements.
摘要:
A correlation processor arrangement is used to guide an airborne vehicle along a path precisely to a predetermined destination. Guidance is divided into three distinct phases, and during each phase the position of the vehicle is verified by matching the view of its surroundings with stored reference data representing the expected fields of view. During the first navigation phase the stored data consists of predetermined terrain areas. During the second detection phase the destination is acquired, and during the third homing phase the view of the approaching destination is used as the stored reference data.