An adaptive altitude information fusion method for autonomous landing processes of small unmanned aerial rotorcraft

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 13212-13224

  Lei, Xusheng Lei ^a   Li, Jingjing Li ^a  

^a Science and Technology on Inertial Laboratory   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive extended Kalman filter; Altitude information fusion; Small unmanned aerial rotorcraft; Wavelet filter

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; ADAPTIVE INFORMATION; ALTITUDE INFORMATION FUSIONS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI CRITERIA; MEASUREMENT INFORMATION; MEASUREMENT NOISE COVARIANCE MATRIX; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL ROTORCRAFTS; WAVELET FILTERS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; HELICOPTER ROTORS; INFORMATION FUSION; ROTORS; SENSORS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84868244300     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s121013212     Document Type: Article

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