Adaptive UAV attitude estimation employing unscented kalman filter, FOAM and low-cost MEMS sensors

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 9566-9585

  de Marina, Héctor García ^a   Espinosa, Felipe ^b   Santos, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attitude estimation; Attitude heading reference system; Fast optimal attitude matrix; UAV navigation; Unscented Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864349579     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120709566     Document Type: Article

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