Observability analysis and active control for airborne SLAM

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 261-280

  Bryson, Mitch ^a   Sukkarieh, Salah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOTION PLANNING; OBSERVABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INFRASTRUCTURE-BASED LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS; ONLINE PATH PLANNER; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING (SLAM);

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 44649152265     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2008.4517003     Document Type: Article

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