Performance analysis of a Kalman filter based attitude estimator for a quad rotor UAV

2010 International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops, ICUMT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 466-471

  Abeywardena, D M W ^a   Munasinghe, S R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATIONAL VELOCITY;

ACCELEROMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; ROTORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79951472153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUMT.2010.5676596     Document Type: Conference Paper

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