Embedded UAV model and LASER aiding techniques for inertial navigation systems

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 262-278

  Vasconcelos, J F ^a   Silvestre, C ^a   Oliveira, P ^a   Guerreiro, B ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Extended Kalman filters; Inertial navigation; Sensor fusion; Vehicle dynamics; Vertical takeoff and landing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ENHANCEMENT; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; INFORMATION SOURCES; INS ERRORS; LASER RANGE FINDERS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; SIMULATION RESULT; UNINHABITED AIR VEHICLES; VEHICLE DYNAMICS; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

AIR NAVIGATION; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; LANDING; POSITION CONTROL; SENSORS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TAKEOFF; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

MANEUVERABILITY;

EID: 77549088794     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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