Bearing-only visual SLAM for small unmanned aerial vehicles in GPS-denied environments

International Journal of Automation and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 387-396

  Wang, Chao Lei ^a   Wang, Tian Miao ^a   Liang, Jian Hong ^a   Zhang, Yi Cheng ^a   Zhou, Yi ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bearing only observation; GPS denied environment; inertial measurement unit; small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); Visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM)

Indexed keywords

BEARING-ONLY; GPS-DENIED ENVIRONMENT; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; VISUAL SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPINGS;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84885898670     PISSN: 14768186     EISSN: 17518520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11633-013-0735-8     Document Type: Article

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