Visual-inertial fusion for quadrotor Micro Air Vehicles with improved scale observability

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3148-3153

  Abeywardena, Dinuka ^a   Wang, Zhan ^a   Kodagoda, Sarath ^a   Dissanayake, Gamini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL AXIS ACCELEROMETERS; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; ESTIMATION PROCESS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FUSION ALGORITHMS; MONOCULAR VISION; NOVEL ALGORITHM; VEHICLE VELOCITY;

ACCELEROMETERS; AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER FUSION; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); OBSERVABILITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887302892     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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