Autonomous airborne navigation in unknown terrain environments

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1031-1045

  Kim, Jonghyuk ^a   Sukkarieh, Salah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS AIRBORNE NAVIGATION; TERRAIN AIDED NAVIGATION SYSTEM; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; VISION SENSORS;

AIR NAVIGATION;

EID: 9444293458     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2004.1337472     Document Type: Article

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