Current low-cost solutions to guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of a small unmanned vehicle (underwater, ground, marine surface, or flight) still cost several thousands of dollars, and offer relatively poor performance at that price point. Tactical grade inertial navigation solutions (INS) run in the several tens of thousands of dollars, and often come with data restrictions due to arms t...

In this article, we present a web server based solution for implementing a system for intelligent navigation. In this solution we use real time collected data and traffic history to establish the best route for navigation. This is a low cost solution that is easily to implement and extend. There is no need any infrastructure at road network level except only a device that collect data about tra...

This paper presents a new real-time hierarchical (topological/metric) localization system applied to the robust self-location of a vehicle in large-scale urban environments. Our proposal improves the current vehicle navigation systems based only on GPS sensor. It is exclusively based on the information provided by both, a low-cost wideangle stereo camera and a low-cost GPS. A low level metric p...

Terrain-aided navigation is a potentially powerful solution for obtaining submerged position fixes for autonomous underwater vehicles. The application of terrain-aided navigation with high-accuracy inertial navigation systems has demonstrated meter-level navigation accuracy in sea trials. However, available sensors may be limited depending on the type of the mission. Such limitations, especiall...

Unmanned Airborne Vehicles (UAVs) today are designed for specific applications in mind, with the majority of UAV applications being focussed on reconnaissance-type missions, reflecting the large military interest in the platform. While a UAV usually is much cheaper than a military attack or surveillance aircraft, the cost of constructing, running and maintaining a UAV is often beyond what civil...

Autonomousmobile robots (AMRs) interactingwith an a prioridistributedwireless sensor network (WSN) in a region can address the three-tier challenge of navigating in unknown environments: (i) identifying target locations, (ii) planning paths to the targets, and (iii) efficiently executing the navigation paths to the targets. This paper presents low-complexity algorithms to address the second-tie...