The algorithm of the color signal recognition at landing an unmanned aerial vehicle on an aircraft carrier in autonomous mode

The movement along the glide path of an unmanned aerial vehicle during landing on an aircraft carrier is investigated. The implementation of this task is realized in the conditions of radio silence of the aircraft carrier. The algorithm for treatment information from an optical landing system installed on an aircraft carrier is developed. The algorithm of the color signal recognition assumes the usage of the image frame preliminary treatment method via a downsample function, that performs the decimation process, the HSV model, the Otsu’s method for calculating the binarization threshold for a halftone image, and the method of separating the connected Two-Pass components. Keywords unmanned aerial vehicle; aircraft carrier; approach; glide path; optical landing system; color signal recognition algorithm; decimation; connected components; halftone image binarization