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Sunghun Jung
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are extensively employed in civilian and military applications because of their excellent maneuverability. Achieving fully autonomous quadrotor flight and precision landing on a wireless charging station in the presence of...
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Qiuyang Dai, Faxing Lu and Junfei Xu
Geodetic coordinate information and attitude information of the observation platform are necessary for multi-UAV position alignment and target tracking. In a complex sea environment, the navigation equipment of a UAV is susceptible to interference. High-...
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Samuel Teague and Javaan Chahl
Strapdown celestial imaging sensors provide a compact, lightweight alternative to their gimbaled counterparts. Strapdown imaging systems typically require a wider field of view, and consequently longer exposure intervals, leading to significant motion bl...
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Assefinew Wondosen, Yisak Debele, Seung-Ki Kim, Ha-Young Shi, Bedada Endale and Beom-Soo Kang
In various applications, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) has been vital in estimating a vehicle?s translational and angular motion in 3-dimensional (3D) space. It is also essential for the fusion of data from multiple sensors. However, for the EKF to pe...
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Yilin Liu, Ruochen Liu, Ruihang Yu, Zhiming Xiong, Yan Guo, Shaokun Cai and Pengfei Jiang
To reduce costs, an unmanned swarm usually consists of nodes with high-accuracy navigation sensors (HAN) and nodes with low-accuracy navigation sensors (LAN). Transmitting and fusing the navigation information obtained by HANs enables LANs to improve the...
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Eduardo Gallo and Antonio Barrientos
This article proposes a method to diminish the horizontal position drift in the absence of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signals experienced by the VNS (Visual Navigation System) installed onboard a UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) by supplementing...
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Muhammad Baber Sial, Yuwei Zhang, Shaoping Wang, Sara Ali, Xinjiang Wang, Xinyu Yang, Zirui Liao and Zunheng Yang
Most of the recent research on distributed formation control of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms is founded on position, distance, and displacement-based approaches; however, a very promising approach, i.e., bearing-based formation control, is still ...
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Salvatore Rosario Bassolillo, Egidio D?Amato, Immacolata Notaro, Gennaro Ariante, Giuseppe Del Core and Massimiliano Mattei
In recent years the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has considerably grown in the civil sectors, due to their high flexibility of use. Currently, two important key points are making them more and more successful in the civil field, namely the decr...
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Zhaoyang Wang, Dan Zhao and Yunfeng Cao
In the recent years, visual navigation has been considered an effective mechanism for achieving an autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Nevertheless, with the limitations of visual cameras, the effectiveness of visual algorithms is sign...
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Jason Gross, Yu Gu and Matthew Rhudy
This article considers a novel approach to using global positioning system (GPS) signal strength readings and estimated velocity vector for estimating the attitude of a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This approach has the benefit being a...
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