Autonomous flight in GPS-denied environments using monocular vision and inertial sensors

AIAA Infotech at Aerospace 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Allen D ^a   Johnson, Eric N ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSARIAL ENVIRONMENTS; AERIAL VEHICLE; ANGULAR RATE; AUTOMATIC CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; AVIONICS SUITE; FLIGHT TEST; GLOBAL POSITION SYSTEMS; GPS SIGNALS; GPS-DENIED; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL SENSOR; MONOCULAR VISION; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; VEHICLE POSITION; VISION BASED; VISION SENSORS;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT CONTROL; AUTOMATION; CONTROL; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; SENSORS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 78650023668     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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