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Factor-graph Optimisation with Vehicle Dynamic Models for Mapping & Sensing Applications

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Unmanned vehicles have become indispensable tools in various fields such as agriculture, environmental monitoring, and disaster response. A crucial component of these platforms is sensor fusion. As measurements are inherently noisy, certain variables canno ...

EPFL2025

VDM-based navigation for Delta-wing UAVs: Models, calibration, implementation

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Autonomous navigation of small UAVs is typically based on the integration of inertial navigation systems (INS) together with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). However, GNSS signals can face various forms of interference affecting their continuous ...

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VDMNav: Software Architecture for Aerodynamically Constrained Navigation on Small Fixed-Wing Drones

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Navigation of drones is predominantly based on sensor fusion algorithms. Most of these algorithms make use of some form of Bayesian filtering with a majority employing an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), wherein inertial measurements are fused with a Global N ...

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Aerodynamic modeling of a delta-wing UAV for model-based navigation

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This study aims to identify an optimal, as well as practical, parametric structure for a delta-wing UAV aerodynamic model for the purpose of model-based navigation. We present a comprehensive procedure for characterizing the aerodynamics of this platform, ...

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GNSS/INS Kalman Filter Integrity Monitoring with Uncertain Time Correlated Error Processes

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Safety-critical navigation applications require that estimation errors be reliably quantified and bounded. Over the last decade, significant effort has been put to guarantee a bounded position estimation by using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) ...

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Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is Enough

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Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories on the article network. Understanding these navigation patterns is crucial to better serve readers' needs and ad ...

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In situ observations of the Swiss periglacial environment using GNSS instruments

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Monitoring of the periglacial environment is relevant for many disciplines including glaciology, natural hazard management, geomorphology, and geodesy. Since October 2022, Rock Glacier Velocity (RGV) is a new Essential Climate Variable (ECV) product within ...

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Today, wearable heart rate monitors are an integral part of runners' training sessions, with heart rate data routinely used to assess effort intensity and stress on the body. As athletes translate their physical capacity into performance on the field throu ...

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UAV in the advent of the twenties: Where we stand and what is next

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Landmarking for Navigational Streaming of Stored High-Dimensional Media

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Modern media data such as 360 degrees videos and light field (LF) images are typically captured in much higher dimensions than the observers' visual displays. To efficiently browse high-dimensional media, a navigational streaming model is considered: a cli ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Identifying aerodynamics of small fixed-wing drones using inertial measurements for model-based navigation

Jan Skaloud, Aman Sharma, Gabriel François Laupré

The success of drone missions is incumbent on an accurate determination of the drone pose and velocity, which are collectively estimated by fusing iner- tial measurement unit and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) mea- surements. However, during a G ...

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Deep Learning Detection of GPS Spoofing

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely deployed in air navigation, where numerous applications use them for safety-of-life and positioning, navigation, and timing tasks. Consequently, GPS spoofing attacks are more and more frequent. The aim of this wor ...

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A Large-Scale Characterization of How Readers Browse Wikipedia

Robert West, Tiziano Piccardi, Akhil Arora

Despite the importance and pervasiveness of Wikipedia as one of the largest platforms for open knowledge, surprisingly little is known about how people navigate its content when seeking information. To bridge this gap, we present the first systematic large ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Augmented Cooper test: Biomechanical contributions to endurance performance

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Running mechanics are modifiable with training and adopting an economical running technique can improve running economy and hence performance. While field measurement of running economy is cumbersome, running mechanics can be assessed accurately and conven ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022