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Air navigation

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Bundle adjustment with raw inertial observations

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak, Davide Antonio Cucci

t is well known that accurate aerial position and attitude control is beneficial for image orientation in airborne photogrammetry. The aerial control is traditionally obtained by Kalman filtering/smoothing inertial and GNSS observations prior to the bundle ...

2017

Time synchronization of consumer cameras on Micro Aerial Vehicles

Jan Skaloud, Martin Rehak

This article discusses the problem of time registration between navigation and imaging components on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). Accurate mapping with MAVs is gaining importance in applications such as corridor mapping, road and pipeline inspections or m ...

Elsevier2017

Autonomous Vehicle Dynamic Model-Based Navigation for Small UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

This paper presents a novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs, with no extra sensor added to the conventional INS/GNSS setup. The proposed method significantly increases the accuracy and reliability of autonomous navigation, especially for s ...

2016

Mission Design and GNC for In-Orbit Demonstration of Active Debris Removal Technologies with CubeSats

Volker Gass, Federico Belloni, Muriel Richard, Camille Sébastien Pirat, Christophe Dominique Paccolat, Reto Wiesendanger

Within the frame of the ESA's General Support Technology Programme, two In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) missions using CubeSat technologies were studied. These IODs aim at alleviating the technical risk inherent to new technologies required for Active Debris ...

Elsevier2017

Evaluation of Wind Effects on UAV Autonomous Navigation Based on Vehicle Dynamic Model

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

A novel approach to autonomous navigation for small UAVs was recently introduced by the authors. An abridged description of this approach can be found in present paper, with its main contribution being further evaluation of effects of wind on navigation pe ...

Inst Navigation2016

Application Of Vehicle Dynamic Modeling In Uavs For Precise Determination Of Exterior Orientation

Jan Skaloud, Mehran Khaghani

Advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and especially micro aerial vehicle (MAV) technology together with increasing quality and decreasing price of imaging devices have resulted in growing use of MAVs in photogrammetry. The practicality of MAV mapping ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2016