Unmanned aerial vehicle navigation and mapping

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

Volumn 222, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 531-548

  Lazarus, S B ^a   Tsourdos, A ^a   Silson, P ^a   White, B ^a   Zbikowski, R ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Navigation; Sensor fusion; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; CONTROL THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; DETECTORS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; FUSION REACTIONS; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; INFORMATION FUSION; LASERS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; POSITION CONTROL; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SMART SENSORS; TANKERS (SHIPS); TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TESTING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

(P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; AERIAL VEHICLES; ANGULAR RATES; COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION; COVARIANCE INTERSECTION (CI); DATA FUSION ALGORITHMS; EXPLICIT BOUNDS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER (ITERATED); GUARANTEED PERFORMANCE (GP); HIGH SPEED RESPONSE; HOUGH TRANSFORM (HT); INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; INERTIAL SENSORS (INS); INTELLIGENT SENSORS; INTERVAL ANALYSIS (IA); KNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; LARGE AREAS; LASER SENSORS; MANOEUVRABILITY; OBSTACLE DETECTION; PERFORMANCE GUARANTEES; POSITION ESTIMATES; SENSOR SYSTEMS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT SENSORS; TWO DIFFERENT METHODS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)];

DATA FUSION;

EID: 46749143674     PISSN: 09544100     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544100JAERO246     Document Type: Article

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