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GPS‐denied indoor and outdoor monocular vision aided navigation and control of unmanned aircraft

Chowdhary et al., 2013

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7217095682709482322
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Chowdhary G
Johnson E
Magree D
Wu A
Shein A
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Journal of field robotics

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GPS‐denied closed‐loop autonomous control of unstable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) such as rotorcraft using information from a monocular camera has been an open problem. Most proposed Vision aided Inertial Navigation Systems (V‐INSs) have been too …
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