Vision-aided inertial navigation for flight control

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 348-360

  Wu, Allen D ^a,b,c   Johnson, Eric N ^a,c,d   Proctor, Alison A ^a,b,c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERING; NAVIGATION; SATELLITES; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VISION;

FLIGHT CONTROL; SATELLITE SIGNALS; VISION SENSORS; VISION-AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 27644530932     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.16038     Document Type: Review

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