TARGET POINTING AND ACQUISITION PROCESS FOR A PLATFORM, NACELLE AND DEVICE ALLOWING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROCEDURE

摘要

The subject of the invention is a method and a device for pointing and acquiring a target (C) for a platform (P), as well as a pod for a drone allowing the implementation of this method. The invention uses at least one rotary wing drone (15) equipped with a nacelle carrying an acquisition device (3), orientable in elevation and bearing relative to the drone, and which comprises a pointing camera orientable towards the target and an observation means ensuring an observation of the space with an angular coverage of substantially 360 ° around a pointing axis of the pointing camera. The observation means make it possible, by comparison of the geometry of the platform with at least one digital model, to determine the pose, that is to say the location and orientation of the axes of a sighting frame (Rv1 , Rv2) linked to the acquisition device (3) in a reference frame (Rp) linked to the platform (P). The pose (s) of the acquisition device associated with the target pointing videos is thus transmitted to the platform. Figure to be published with the abstract: Fig. 3