Dual airborne laser scanners aided inertial for improved autonomous navigation

AK Vadlamani, MU de Haag - IEEE Transactions on Aerospace …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A dead-reckoning terrain referenced navigation (TRN) system is presented that uses two
airborne laser scanners (ALS) to aid an inertial navigation system (INS). The system uses …

Application of laser range scanner based terrain referenced navigation systems for aircraft guidance

MU de Haag, A Vadlamani… - … on Electronic Design …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the various aspects of using airborne laser scanners (ALS) in terrain
referenced navigation (TRN) systems. The paper addresses the system performance of these …

Coherent combining and long coherent integration for BOC signal acquisition under strong interference

C Yang, A Soloviev, A Vadlamani, JC Ha - NAVIGATION: Journal of the …, 2022 - navi.ion.org
A coherent combining and long coherent integration (CCLCI) scheme is presented for
standalone direct acquisition of binary offset carrier (BOC) signals under strong radio frequency …

Feature matching error analysis and modeling for consistent estimation in vision‐aided navigation

C Yang, A Vadlamani, A Soloviev… - Navigation: Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In vision‐aided navigation, images from natural scenes are processed to produce feature
measurements for navigation aiding. However, feature measurements are subject to non‐…

Use of laser range scanners for precise navigation in unknown environments

AK Vadlamani, MU de Haag - … of the 19th International Technical Meeting of …, 2006 - ion.org
In order to enable the operation of both civil and military Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
and Inhabited Aerial Vehicles (IAVs) at any time in any environment, a Precision Navigation…

Aerial vehicle navigation over unknown terrain environments using flash LADAR and inertial measurements

AK Vadlamani, MU de Haag - Proceedings of the 2007 National Technical …, 2007 - ion.org
The last few years have seen the emergence of various new optical technologies such as
the development of sensors known as 3D range–imaging cameras or Flash LADARS (Laser …

Performance improvement methods for terrain database integrity monitors and terrain referenced navigation

AK Vadlamani - 2004 - rave.ohiolink.edu
Terrain database integrity monitors and terrain-referenced navigation systems are based on
performing a comparison between stored terrain elevations with data from airborne sensors …

[BOOK][B] Airborne laser scanner aided inertial for terrain referenced navigation in unknown environments

AK Vadlamani - 2010 - search.proquest.com
A dead-reckoning terrain referenced navigation (TRN) system that uses airborne laser
ranging sensors to aid an aircraft inertial navigation system (INS) is presented. Improved …

Improved downward-looking terrain database integrity monitor and terrain navigation

AK Vadlamani, MU de Haag - 2004 IEEE Aerospace …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Terrain database integrity monitors and terrain referenced navigation systems are both based
on performing a comparison between stored terrain elevation data and data obtained from …

Flight test evaluation of various terrain referenced navigation techniques for aircraft approach guidance

MU de Haag, A Vadlamani - Proceedings of IEEE/ION PLANS 2006, 2006 - ion.org
This paper discusses the evaluation of two sets of terrain referenced navigators (TRN). The
first set of TRN systems use radar altimeter measurements, baro-altimeter measurements, …