As Global Positioning System (GPS) cannot provide satisfying performance in indoor
environments, indoor positioning technology, which utilizes indoor wireless signals instead …

Mobile surveying is currently one of the most popular topics in the LiDAR industry. The
collection of highly precise point cloud data is provided by laser scanning systems on …

This article describes the robot Stanley, which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
Stanley was developed for high‐speed desert driving without manual intervention. The …

We present the development of a low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Light Detecting and
Ranging (UAV-LiDAR) system and an accompanying workflow to produce 3D point clouds …

The development of a navigation system is one of the major challenges in building a fully
autonomous platform. Full autonomy requires a dependable navigation capability not only in …

Visual and inertial sensors, in combination, are able to provide accurate motion estimates
and are well suited for use in many robot navigation tasks. However, correct data fusion, and …

Solutions for indoor tracking and localization have become more critical with recent
advancement in context and location-aware technologies. The accuracy of explicit …

A brief review of research in agricultural vehicle guidance technologies is presented. The
authors propose the conceptual framework of an agricultural vehicle autonomous guidance …

A significant growth in Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) operations has been observed over
the past decade, largely driven by the emergence of new commercial opportunities and use …

In this paper we present a state estimation method based on an inertial measurement unit
(IMU) and a planar laser range finder suitable for use in real-time on a fixed-wing micro air …