Photogrammetric Techniques for Safe Separation Flight Test

Photogrammetric techniques were used to analyze separation characteristics of store in safe separation flight test. In this analysis, we used single camera method to analyze 6 degrees of freedom of separated store. We established instrumentation requirements based on theoretical background of photogrammetry and guidelines of MIL-HDBK-1763. We applied the photogrammetry to flight test and extracted separation trajectory. We empirically estimated the input variables uncertainties of photogrammetry and its effects on separation trajectory. Using this trajectory which includes the photogrammetric error, we analyzed the safety of separation.