| Sol No.: |
Navy SBIR FY2015.2 |
| Topic No.: |
N152-111 |
| Topic Title: |
Carrier Automated Beacon Landing Enhancement (CABLE) |
| Proposal No.: |
N152-111-0224 |
| Firm: |
Opto-Knowledge Systems, Inc. (OKSI)
19805 Hamilton Ave
Torrance, California 90502 |
| Contact: |
Gordon Scriven |
| Phone: |
(310) 756-0520 |
| Abstract: |
OKSI proposes to design an optical system to support automated landing of fixed wing aircraft on carriers. The Carrier Automated Beacon Landing Enhancement (CABLE) system will utilize augmented beacon lighting located on the ship and optimized imaging system on the aircraft. Automated software will extract observed light positions combined with onboard INS to produce aircraft relative position and attitude. These measurements will be provided to a Kalman Filter to compute the aircraft control to maintain the desired glide path to carrier landing. |
| Benefits: |
The system developed under the proposed effort will provide high accuracy aircraft position and attitude to support quick convergence of the Kalman Filter used to control the aircraft during approach to the carrier. The system will be directly used by the Robust Adaptive Filtering/fusion for Shipboard Autolanding (RAFSA) project under the Sea-based Automated Launch and Recovery System (SALRS) program for the Navy. |