LANDING HAZARD AVOIDANCE DISPLAY

摘要

Landing hazard avoidance displays can provide rapidly understood visual indications of where it is safe to land a vehicle and where it is unsafe to land a vehicle. Color coded maps can indicate zones in two dimensions relative to the vehicles position where it is safe to land. The map can be simply green (safe) and red (unsafe) areas with an indication of scale or can be a color coding of another map such as a surface map. The color coding can be determined in real time based on topological measurements and safety criteria to thereby adapt to dynamic, unknown, or partially known environments.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a topology sensing platform that produces a topology measurement of the surface along a vehicle's flight path; safety criteria comprising at least one topological criterion wherein each topological criterion specifies terrain characteristics for safe landing or unsafe landing; an analysis module that produces a two dimensional hazard map by applying the safety criteria to the topology measurement wherein the two-dimensional hazard map is color coded to indicate geographical areas that are safe to land on and to indicate geographical areas that are not safe to land on; and a presentation module that presents the two-dimensional hazard map to a user.