Agricultural applications, particularly row cropping applications which are the focus of this paper, are ideal candidates for automation through their continuous and repetitive nature, high dependence on manual labour and typically being conducted in locations that have a relatively unobstructed sky view. A key part of the automation process however, is determining the location of the machinery...

Intermittent loss of the gps signal is a common problem encountered in intelligent land navigation based on gps integrated inertial systems. This issue emphasizes the need for an alternative technology that would ensure smooth and reliable inertial navigation during gps outages. This paper presents the results of an effort where data from vision and inertial sensors are integrated. However, for...

This paper presents a real time pedestrian navigation system that combines different type of GPS receivers (namely High Sensitivity GPS and Assisted GPS) with several low-cost inertial sensors to face GPS outages and provide a reliable and continuous position solution. The off-the-shelf inertial module from Xsens is made of several low-cost MEMS type sensors contained in a very small package (5...

Land Vehicle Navigation (LVN) mostly relies on integrated system consisting of Inertial Navigation System (INS) and Global Positioning System (GPS). The combined system provides continuous and accurate navigation solution when compared to standalone INS or GPS. Different fusion methodology such as those based on Kalman filtering and particle filtering has been proposed that estimates and models...