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Fun fact: optical mouse tech was developed for airplane navigation first. So it would not be very expensive to have this system as a backup.
by looofooo0 2y ago
Fun fact: optical mouse tech was developed for airplane navigation first. So it would not be very expensive to have this system as a backup.
- Eduard 2y ago> optical mouse tech was developed for airplane navigation first Citation needed.
- looofooo0 2y agoI don't think there is any direct claim for this. But you will find lots of old research about optical flow measurement for navigation. Optical flow sensor part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_flow seems like a good start.
- appointment 2y agoSatellite guided approaches are used when there is no visibility, so I don't know how that would help. You could use terrain-matching radar for navigation, but that would require additional equipment on the airplane. Every plane already has GNSS receivers, so implementing RNAV is basically a software feature.