Driftless 3-D attitude determination and positioning of mobile robots by integration of IMU with two RTK GPSs

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 21-31

  Aghili, Farhad ^a   Salerno, Alessio ^a,b  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitude determination; global positioning system; global positioning system inertial measurement unit (GPS IMU) integration; inertial measurement unit; Kalman filtering; localization of mobile robots; navigation of vehicles; pose estimation; real time kinematic global positioning system (RTK GPS)

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE DETERMINATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; KALMAN-FILTERING; NAVIGATION OF VEHICLES; POSE ESTIMATION; RTK-GPS;

COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA FUSION; INTEGRATION; KALMAN FILTERS; KINEMATICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84866518341     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2161485     Document Type: Article

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