AR.Drone autonomous control and position determination

In this thesis first a study is conducted on which position determination method should be used in a UAV and especially in the Parrot AR.Drone. Then an autonomous control for the AR.Drone is designed. The best position determination method in this case appeared to be a combination of a GPS sensor and a barometer. The autonomous control is...

Fixed-Wing UAV Integrated Navigation with Low-Cost IMU/GPS

Today, there is an increase in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), for applications that can be considered dull, dirty or dangerous when compared to those applications of conventional aircraft or helicopters. To further increase the use of UAV's, their navigation filters must be robust and reliable. The trend in current autopilot...

Accuracy Assesment of direct sensor orientation in UAV Photogrammetry

With the advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, it becomes possible to use these vehicles to acquire photogrammetric images in a more cheap and flexible way compared with conventional photogrammetry from a full-sized airplane. A big factor in costs and resources in conventional photogrammetry is signalling and measuring ground control points, which...