A low-cost, redundant inertial measurement unit for unmanned air vehicles

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1089-1103

  Sukkarieh, Salah ^a   Gibbens, Peter ^a   Grocholsky, Ben ^a   Willis, Keith ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomous systems; Global positioning system; Inertial measurement unit; Information filter; Redundancy; UAV

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ERROR DETECTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GYROSCOPES; REDUNDANCY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INFORMATION FILTER; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES;

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034315827     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02783640022067995     Document Type: Article

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