Cooperative localisation and map building of unknown terrain by swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles
Cooperative localisation and map building of unknown terrain by swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles
- Author(s): I. Ashokaraj ; A. Tsourdas ; P. Silson ; B. White
- DOI: 10.1049/ic:20050138
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- Author(s): I. Ashokaraj ; A. Tsourdas ; P. Silson ; B. White Source: IEE Seminar on Netted Sensors, 2005 page ()
- Conference: IEE Seminar on Netted Sensors
- DOI: 10.1049/ic:20050138
- ISBN: 0 86341 539 3
- Location: London, UK
- Conference date: 7 Sept. 2005
- Format: PDF
A swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is composed of a group of more than two UAVs that have the same airframe flying together. The platform's goal is to release microvehicles from small surveillance UAV for positive target ID and tagging in urban terrain. In this paper, the author discussed the cooperative localisation and map building of an unknown terrain by a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles using multiple sensor navigation. It has two primary sources of vehicle position, namely vision sensors and laser sensors. This platform can also be used in ad-hoc networking and video networking. (19 pages)
Inspec keywords: image sensors; aircraft; image processing; terrain mapping; surveillance; sensor fusion; remotely operated vehicles; aircraft navigation
Subjects: Sensor fusion; General aspects of aircraft, space vehicles and satellites; Optical, image and video signal processing; Computer vision and image processing techniques; Other topics in Earth sciences; Geography and cartography computing; Image sensors
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