Attitude and gyro bias estimation for a VTOL UAV

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1511-1520

  Metni, Najib ^a   Pflimlin, Jean Michel ^b   Hamel, Tarek ^c   Souères, Philippe ^b  

^a Lab Central des Ponts et Chaussees   (France)

^b LAAS CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Aerial robots; Inertial measurement unit; Mobile robot navigation; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AERIAL ROBOTS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; SENSOR FUSION;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33747811443     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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