LiDAR scan matching aided inertial navigation system in GNSS-denied environments

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 16710-16728

  Tang, Jian ^a,b   Chen, Yuwei ^b   Niu, Xiaoji ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Chen, Liang ^c   Liu, Jingbin ^b   Shi, Chuang ^a   Hyyppä, Juha ^b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Finnish Geospatial Institute ^*  (Finland)

^c FINNISH GEOSPATIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

EKF; Inertial navigation; INS; LiDAR; Scan matching

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES; CALIBRATION; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RADAR; ROBOTICS;

AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION; EKF; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; INS; POSITIONING ACCURACY; SCAN MATCHING; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84940190753     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150716710     Document Type: Article

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