High-precision image aided inertial navigation with known features: Observability analysis and performance evaluation

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 19371-19401

  Jiang, Weiping ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Niu, Xiaoji ^a   Zhang, Quan ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Tang, Min ^a   Hu, Xiangyun ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High precision; Image aided inertial navigation; Observability analysis; Tightly coupled

Indexed keywords

AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION; HIGH PRECISION; OBSERVABILITY ANALYSIS; TIGHTLY-COUPLED;

EID: 84908530057     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s141019371     Document Type: Article

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