Airborne vision-aided navigation using road intersection features

SJ Dumble, PW Gibbens - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2015 - Springer
Modern airborne navigation systems for manned and unmanned platforms usually rely on
GPS measurements to constrain the inertial position estimate of the platform. This reliance …

Geolocalization with aerial image sequence for UAVs

Y Li, H He, D Yang, S Wang, M Zhang - Autonomous Robots, 2020 - Springer
The estimation of geolocation for aerial images is significant for tasks like map creating, or
automatic navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We propose a novel …

Fast aerial image geolocalization using the projective-invariant contour feature

Y Li, S Wang, H He, D Meng, D Yang - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
We address the problem of aerial image geolocalization over an area as large as a whole
city through road network matching, which is modeled as a 2D point set registration problem …

Global aerial localisation using image and map embeddings

N Samano, M Zhou, A Calway - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a purely vision based geolocation method for aircraft flying over urban and
suburban environments. The method is based on matching aerial images with geolocated …

Road-network-based fast geolocalization

Y Li, D Yang, S Wang, H He, J Hu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, a road-network-based geolocalization method is proposed. We match roads in
the onboard images to the reference road vector map, and realize successful localization …

Satellite imagery assisted road-based visual navigation system

A Volkova, PW Gibbens - ISPRS Annals of the …, 2016 - isprs-annals.copernicus.org
There is a growing demand for unmanned aerial systems as autonomous surveillance,
exploration and remote sensing solutions. Among the key concerns for robust operation of …

[PDF][PDF] Sensor processing and path planning framework for a search and rescue UAV network

AW Brown, BE Franklin, JG Estabrook - … Major Qualifying Project No …, 2012 - digital.wpi.edu
Search and rescue operations are a costly endeavour. The advent of new technologies,
such as unmanned aerial vehicles, can decrease the cost of such operations and increase …