Disclosed herein is methods, systems, and aircraft for performing refueling operations. A method of controlling pilot director lights includes generating, using a camera of a tanker aircraft, a two-dimensional (2D) image of a receiver aircraft and a refueling boom of the tanker aircraft, determining a 2D position of a boom receptacle on the receiver aircraft within the 2D image, determining a three-dimensional (3D) position of the boom receptacle with regard to an origin location of the camera of the tanker aircraft, moving the 3D position of the boom receptacle to have a boom pivot origin to produce a moved 3D position of the boom receptacle, and controlling one or more pilot director lights based on the moved 3D position.
AERIAL REFUELING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
2024-11-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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