Distributed and collaborative localization for swarming UAVs

R Chen, B Yang, W Zhang - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially swarming UAVs are widely
deployed in a variety of Internet-of-Things (IoT) scenarios. Since UAVs' positions are …

Cooperative relative localization for UAV swarm in GNSS-denied environment: A coalition formation game approach

L Ruan, G Li, W Dai, S Tian, G Fan… - IEEE Internet of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms require accurate relative localization to safeguard
flight missions in the global navigation satellite system-denied environment due to a lack of …

A localization method avoiding flip ambiguities for micro-UAVs with bounded distance measurement errors

Q Guo, Y Zhang, J Lloret, B Kantarci… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Localization is a fundamental function in cooperative control of micro unmanned aerial
vehicles (UAVs), but is easily affected by flip ambiguities because of measurement errors …

BRM localization: UAV localization in GNSS-denied environments based on matching of numerical map and UAV images

J Choi, H Myung - 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Localization is one of the most important technologies needed to use Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAVs) in actual fields. Currently, most UAVs use GNSS to estimate their position …

Indoor visual-based localization system for multi-rotor uavs

M Bertoni, S Michieletto, R Oboe, G Michieletto - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Industry 4.0, smart homes, and the Internet of Things are boosting the employment of
autonomous aerial vehicles in indoor environments, where localization is still challenging …

Autonomous 3-D UAV localization using cellular networks: Deep supervised learning versus reinforcement learning approaches

G Afifi, Y Gadallah - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming an integral part of numerous commercial
and military applications. In many of these applications, the UAV is required to self-navigate …

Distributed 3D relative localization of UAVs

Y Liu, Y Wang, J Wang, Y Shen - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-accuracy and low-latency localization capability is essential for the internet of things
(IoT), such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). For applications of UAVs such as formation …

Ultra-wideband based cooperative relative localization algorithm and experiments for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles in GPS denied environments

K Guo, Z Qiu, W Meng, L Xie… - International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This article puts forward an indirect cooperative relative localization method to estimate the
position of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relative to their neighbors based solely on …

Measurement errors in range-based localization algorithms for UAVs: Analysis and experimentation

FB Sorbelli, CM Pinotti, S Silvestri… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Localizing ground devices (GDs) is an important requirement for a wide variety of
applications, such as infrastructure monitoring, precision agriculture, search and rescue …

UAV-aided positioning systems for ground devices: Fundamental limits and algorithms

T Liang, T Zhang, J Yang, D Feng… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-precision location information formulates the basis of the modern Internet of Things
(IoT). However, since the navigation signals from the global navigation satellite systems …