Automated aerial refueling position estimation using a scanning LiDAR

25th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation 2012, ION GNSS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 774-782

  Curro, Joseph ^a   Raquet, John ^a   Pestak, Thomas ^a   Kresge, Jared ^a   Smearcheck, Mark ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS; AUTOMATED AERIAL REFUELING; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINT ALGORITHM; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; POSITION ESTIMATION; RELATIVE ATTITUDE; RELATIVE POSITIONS; TANKER AIRCRAFTS;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84879671190     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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