SMART HELIPAD FOR SUPPORTING LANDING OF VERTICAL TAKEOFF AND LANDING AIRCRAFT, SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SMART HELIPAD, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING THE SMART HELIPAD

• US 20140070052A1
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KANG, Hyun
• Granted Patent: US 9,174,747 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 244/114.R
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/007 Helicopter portable landing pads
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/18 Visual or acoustic landing aids taxiing aids B64F1/002

Abstract

Provided is a method of providing a smart helipad configured to support landing of a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the method including adaptively displaying an imaged marker recognizable by a camera mounted to the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft; obtaining tilting information about a ground surface and a sea surface using a gyro sensor; and adjusting a landing pad connected to a display unit on which the marker is displayed to be in parallel with a horizontal line based on the tilting information, using a motion platform having change responsiveness to all of the directions.

Claims

1. A method of providing a smart helipad configured to support landing of a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, the method comprising:

adaptively displaying an imaged marker recognizable by a camera mounted to the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft;

obtaining tilting information about a ground surface and a sea surface using a gyro sensor; and

adjusting a landing pad connected to a display unit on which the marker is displayed to be in parallel with a horizontal line based on the tilting information, using a motion platform having change responsiveness to all of the directions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the adjusting comprises changing a posture and a position of the landing pad with quick adjustment responsiveness to each axis of the motion platform.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the adaptively displaying comprises adaptively displaying the marker based on a height of the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and a resolution of the camera mounted to the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining comprises:

obtaining tilting deviation information about the ground surface and the sea surface using the gyro sensor; and

updating the tilting deviation information to the motion platform.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

collecting information about the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

6. A system comprising a smart helipad, the system comprising:

a display unit;

a motion platform unit; and

a controller,

wherein the controller obtains tilting information about a ground surface and a sea surface using a gyro sensor.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the motion platform unit comprises a motion a motion platform, and adjusts a landing pad connected to the display unit on which a marker is displayed to be in parallel with a horizontal line based on the tilting information, using the motion platform having change responsiveness to all of the directions.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the motion platform unit changes a posture and a position of the landing pad with quick adjustment responsiveness to each axis of the motion platform.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the display unit comprises a landing pad, and adaptively displays an imaged marker recognizable by a camera mounted to the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the display unit adaptively displays the marker based on a height of the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and a resolution of the camera mounted to the vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the display unit comprises at least one of a display panel including a light emitting diode (LED), a projector, a plasma display panel (PDP), and a display panel including a liquid crystal display (LCD).