Aerial vehicle navigation over unknown terrain environments using flash LADAR and inertial measurements

Proceedings of the Institute of Navigation, National Technical Meeting

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1104-1118

  Vadlamani, Ananth K ^a,b,c   De Haag, Maarten Uijt ^a,b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Institute of Navigation

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; POSITION CONTROL;

AERIAL VEHICLE NAVIGATION; FLASH LADAR; IMAGING CAMERAS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 34547991923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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