Pitch and roll attitude estimation of a small-scaled helicopter using single antenna GPS with gyroscopes

GPS Solutions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 209-220

  Tenn, Hian Kun ^a   Jan, Shau Shiun ^a   Hsiao, Fei Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attitude estimation; GPS; Unmanned helicopter

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC LABORATORY; ANGULAR RATE; ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; COMPLEMENTARY FILTERS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; GPS; ONBOARD COMPUTERS; PITCH ATTITUDE; POST PROCESSING; RADIO-CONTROLLED MODELS; RC HELICOPTER; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH PLATFORMS; SINGLE ANTENNA; SINGLE-ANTENNA GPS RECEIVERS; UNMANNED HELICOPTER; VELOCITY INFORMATION;

ANTENNAS; CONTROL THEORY; ESTIMATION; GYROSCOPES; HELICOPTERS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCELERATION; ANTENNA; ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; GPS; KALMAN FILTER; UNMANNED VEHICLE; VELOCITY;

EID: 70350000605     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-008-0114-z     Document Type: Article

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