Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has surged in the last two decades,
making them popular instruments for a wide range of applications, and leading to a …

Trajectory estimation refers to the task of obtaining position and orientation estimates by
fusing various sensor inputs. In kinematic map**, global navigation satellite systems …

Motivated by the goal of achieving robust, drift-free pose estimation in long-term
autonomous navigation, in this work we propose a methodology to fuse global positional …

In filtering-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS)/inertial navigation system (INS)
integrated navigation systems, the precise INS mechanization has fully considered the …

Kinematic laser scanning is a widely-used surveying technique based on light detection and
ranging (LiDAR) that enables efficient data acquisition by mounting the laser scanner on a …

Tightly-coupled sensor orientation, ie the simultaneous processing of temporal (GNSS and
raw inertial) and spatial (image and lidar) constraints in a common adjustment, has …

In this work, we address the problem of rigorously evaluating the performances of an inertial
navigation system (INS) during its design phase in presence of multiple alternative choices …

With the objective of improving the registration of lidar point clouds produced by kinematic
scanning systems, we propose a novel trajectory adjustment procedure that leverages on …

In recent years, many methods have been proposed to improve the quality of the estimated
trajectories for airborne or terrestrial map** platforms leveraging multi-sensor fusion. One …

We have recently released in the open domain data originating from a series of flights
conducted with a fixed-wing micro UAV carrying high-quality small camera and navigation …