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Robust Navigation Systems for UAVs

Small and micro UAVs currently mostly use GPS/INS integrated navigation systems to provide position information. These are most commonly supplemented with barometric altimeters, ultrasound or laser rangefinders, and optical flow detectors. Overall, these systems work well under nominal conditions, however, there are multiple single points of failure present. Loss of GPS signal, for example, whether due to radio interference, flying through urban canyons or equipment failure, will render most systems unusable. This project aims to determine weak points in currently used navigation systems for small and micro UAVs, find appropriate solutions and test them in flight. So far, most of the outputs of this project were related to increasing the research capacities of the involved researchers, development of an in-flight test bed, and testing already existing algorithms.

UAV ; in-flight testing ; system redundancy ; visual navigation

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