Localization of an underwater vehicle using an IMU and a laser-based vision system

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Karras, George C ^a   Kyriakopoulos, Kostas J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Guidance and control; IMU; Laser pointers; Multisensor Kalman filter; ROV; Underwater vision

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR VELOCITY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; LASERS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SUBMERSIBLES; TRACKING (POSITION); VECTORS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WATER CRAFT; WAVE FILTERS;

CLOSED LOOPS; COMPUTER VISION ALGORITHMS; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL; HIGH FREQUENCIES; IMAGE PLANES; IMU; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LASER POINTERS; LOW FREQUENCIES; MULTI SENSORS; MULTISENSOR KALMAN FILTER; POSITION TRACKING; POSITION VECTORS; ROV; SENSOR PACKAGING; STEERING CONTROL; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; UNDERWATER VISION; VISION SYSTEMS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 50249179199     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433777     Document Type: Conference Paper

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