Close-range optical measurement of aircraft's 3D attitude and accuracy evaluation

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2008-08-18
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Anewscreen-spotimagingmethodbasedonopticalmeasurementisproposed,whichisapplicabletotheclose-rangemeasurementofaircraft'sthree-dimensional(3D)attitudeparameters.Lasertrackerisusedtofinishtheglobalcalibrationsofthehigh-speedcamerasandthefixedscreensontestsite,aswellastoestablishmedia-coordinate-framesamongvariouscoordinatesystems.Thelasercooperationobjectmountedontheaircraftsurfaceprojectslaserbeamsonthescreensandthehigh-speedcamerassyn-chronouslyrecordthelight-spots'positionchangingwithaircraftattitude.Therecordedimagesequencesareusedtocomputetheaircraftattitudeparameters.Basedonthematrixanalysis,theerrorsourcesofthemeasurementaccuracyareanalyzed,andthemaximumrelativeerrorofthismathematicalmodelisestimated.Theexperimentalresultshowsthatthismethodeffectivelymakesthechangeofaircraftpositiondistinguishable,andtheerrorofthismethodisnomorethan3′whiletherotationanglesofthreeaxesarewithinacertainrange.