Novel approach to position and orientation estimation in vision-based UAV navigation

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 687-700

  Zhang, J ^a   Wu, Y ^a,c   Liu, W ^a,d   Chen, X ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; ESTIMATION ERRORS; IMAGING GEOMETRY; OBSERVATION MODEL; ORIENTATION ESTIMATION; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TRACKING PROBLEM; UAV (UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE); VISION BASED;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VIDEO CAMERAS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77952733151     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2010.5461649     Document Type: Article

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