During last decade the scientific research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicless (UAVs) increased
spectacularly and led to the design of multiple types of aerial platforms. The major challenge …

Kalman filters have received much attention with the increasing demands for robotic
automation. This paper briefly surveys the recent developments for robot vision. Among …

In this paper, we present a novel method to fuse observations from an inertial measurement
unit (IMU) and visual sensors, such that initial conditions of the inertial integration, including …

The employment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has greatly facilitated the lives of
humans. Due to the mass manufacturing of consumer unmanned aerial vehicles and the …

This paper investigates the problem of vision and inertial data fusion. A sensor assembling
that is constituted by one monocular camera, three orthogonal accelerometers, and three …

In this paper we present a tutorial introduction to two important senses for biological and
robotic systems—inertial and visual perception. We discuss the fundamentals of these two …

Methods and systems are disclosed for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to
autonomously navigate a physical environment while capturing images of the physical …

In this paper, we describe a system that can carry out simultaneous localization and
map** (SLAM) in large indoor and outdoor environments using a stereo pair moving with …

Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) play a vital role in military warfare. In a variety of
battlefield mission scenarios, UAVs are required to safely fly to designated locations without …

In this paper, we first study the projections onto the set of unit dual quaternions, and the set
of dual quaternion vectors with unit norms. Then we propose a power method for computing …