Mossel et al., 2014 - Google Patents

SmartCopter: Enabling autonomous flight in indoor environments with a smartphone as on-board processing unit

Mossel et al., 2014

Document ID
12564302809951371975
Author
Mossel A
Leichtfried M
Kaltenriner C
Kaufmann H
Publication year
Publication venue
International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

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Purpose–The authors present a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for autonomous flight and navigation in GPS-denied environments using an off-the-shelf smartphone as its core on-board processing unit. Thereby, the approach is independent from additional …
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    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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    • G01C21/00—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups
    • G01C21/10—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups by using measurements of speed or acceleration
    • G01C21/12—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups by using measurements of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigated; Dead reckoning
    • G01C21/16—Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in preceding groups by using measurements of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigated; Dead reckoning by integrating acceleration or speed, i.e. inertial navigation
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