A dynamic navigation model for unmanned aircraft systems and an application to autonomous front-on environmental sensing and photography using low-cost sensor systems

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 21537-21553

  Cooper, Andrew James ^a   Redman, Chelsea Anne ^a   Stoneham, David Mark ^a   Gonzalez, Luis Felipe ^a   Etse, Victor Kwesi ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial filming; Aerial photography; Dynamic waypoint navigation; Predictive path planning; Societal integration; Unmanned aircraft system

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AIR NAVIGATION; ALGORITHMS; COSTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MOTION PLANNING; PHOTOGRAPHY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMIC NAVIGATIONS; DYNAMIC WAYPOINT NAVIGATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; HAVERSINE FORMULAS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84940704957     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150921537     Document Type: Article

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