Long-range Navigation Aids

Long-range GPS-denied Aerial Inertial Navigation

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Computer Simulation of Long - Range Bird Navigation

RoverBug: Long Range Navigation for Mars Rovers

After Mars Pathfinder’s success, a demand for new mobile robots for planetary exploration arose. These robots must be able to autonomously traverse long distances over rough, unknown terrain, under severe resource constraints. We present the “RoverBug” algorithm, which is complete, correct, requires minimal memory, and uses only on-board sensors, which are guided by the algorithm to sense only ...

Ortophoto analysis for UGV long-range autonomous navigation

The paper presents a method of terrain classification and path planning for unmanned ground vehicles. The terrain classification is done on imagery that is acquired from UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) or satellite and is used for UGV (unmanned ground vehicle) path planning thus introducing collaboration capabilities to the system of two. The system complements the UGV on-board navigation system ...

An integrated navigation system for a long range AUV

This paper presents the basic concepts of an integrated navigation system devised for a long range AUV which has to reach distant mission points while the currents can be only roughly predicted and details on the sea bed are locally known. The system includes several basic functions that are under the control of an execution monitor in order to perform re-planning when abnormal conditions are e...