TY - JOUR
TI - A Runway Safety System Based on Vertically Oriented Stereovision
AU - Gradolewski, D
AU - Dziak, D
AU - Kaniecki, D
AU - Jaworski, A
AU - Skakuj, M
AU - Kulesza, W
T2 - Sensors
AB - In 2020, over 10,000 bird strikes were reported in the USA, with average repair costs exceeding $200 million annually, rising to $1.2 billion worldwide. These collisions of avifauna with airplanes pose a significant threat to human safety and wildlife. This article presents a system dedicated to monitoring the space over an airport and is used to localize and identify moving objects. The solution is a stereovision based real-time bird protection system, which uses IoT and distributed computing concepts together with advanced HMI to provide the setup’s flexibility and usability. To create a high degree of customization, a modified stereovision system with freely oriented optical axes is proposed. To provide a market tailored solution affordable for small and medium size airports, a user-driven design methodology is used. The mathematical model is implemented and optimized in MATLAB. The implemented system prototype is verified in a real environment. The quantitative validation of the system performance is carried out using fixed-wing drones with GPS recorders. The results obtained prove the system’s high efficiency for detection and size classification in real-time, as well as a high degree of localization certainty
DA - 2021/02//
PY - 2021
VL - 21
IS - 4
SP - 25
UR - https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/4/1464/htm
DO - 10.3390/s21041464
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Collision
KW - Habitat Change
KW - Birds
ER -