Inertially aided visual odometry for miniature air vehicles in GPS-denied environments

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 203-221

  Ready, Bryce B ^a   Taylor, Clark N ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS denied navigation; Inertially aided visual odometry; Kalman filter; Miniature unmanned air vehicles; Pose estimation; Sensor fusion; Visual odometry; Visually aided inertial navigation

Indexed keywords

GPS-DENIED NAVIGATION; INERTIALLY AIDED VISUAL ODOMETRY; MINIATURE UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES; POSE ESTIMATION; SENSOR FUSION; VISUAL ODOMETRY; VISUALLY AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION;

AIR FILTERS; AIRCRAFT; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ESTIMATION; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SMART SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 67349252536     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-008-9294-6     Document Type: Article

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