Avionics
Automatic Landing Tested in DA42
A German university has achieved an automatic landing in a light airplane using vision-assisted navigation.
Vision-assisted navigation helped land a Diamond DA42 automatically, as part of a research project at the Technical University of Munich. (Photo: TUM)
Vision-assisted navigation helped land a Diamond DA42 automatically, as part of a research project at the Technical University of Munich. (Photo: TUM)

A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and project partners have successfully landed a modified Diamond DA-42 automatically and for the most part without human intervention using a vision-assisted navigation system to align the airplane with the runway centerline.


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