Tracking drone orientation with multiple GPS receivers

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn 0, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 280-293

  Gowda, Mahanth ^a   Manweiler, Justin ^b   Dhekne, Ashutosh ^a   Choudhury, Romit Roy ^a   Weisz, Justin D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier phases; Differential GPS; Drones; IMU; UAV

Indexed keywords

DRONES; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CARRIER PHASIS; CORRELATED FAILURES; DIFFERENTIAL GPS; FAIL-SAFE MECHANISM; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; INERTIAL SENSOR; PARTICLE FILTER; RELATIVE LOCATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84994169082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2973750.2973768     Document Type: Conference Paper

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