Procedure for automatically landing an aircraft

摘要

A procedure and system are provided for automatically landing an aircraft, particularly an unmanned aircraft on a moving, particularly floating landing platform, for example, on an aircraft carrier, the aircraft being equipped with an automatic navigation device and an automatic landing control device. The procedure includes detecting the position of an intended landing spot, detecting motion data of the landing platform, determining at least one imminent point in time at which the landing spot takes up a reference position, transmitting the point in time and the reference position of the landing spot to the landing control device of the aircraft, and controlling the aircraft such that it reaches the landing spot at the point in time.

主权项

1. A method for automatically landing a conventional take-off and landing aircraft on a movable landing platform, comprising the acts of:
detecting position data of an intended landing spot onboard the movable landing platform; detecting motion data of a motion of the landing platform about at least one of its space axes; determining at least one imminent point in time at which the intended landing spot will be located at a reference position in an absolute coordinate system at which the conventional take-off and landing aircraft is projected to meet the movable landing platform when the movable landing platform is at least approximately horizontal relative to a roll axis of the movable landing platform; transmitting the at least one imminent point in time and at least the reference position in the absolute coordinate system to a landing control device of the conventional take-off and landing aircraft; and controlling the conventional take-off and landing aircraft such that a touchdown spot of the conventional take-off and landing aircraft on the movable landing platform, calculated by the landing control device based on at least the transmitted at least one imminent point in time and the reference position in the absolute coordinate system, corresponds to the reference position at a time which corresponds to the at least one imminent point in time.