Professional paper
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Supported by INS and GNSS Sensors
Domagoj Pavlik
; graduate studies, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Iva Popčević
; graduate studies, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ana Rumora
; graduate studies, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft without crew. It can be controlled remotely or fly autonomously. UAV can fly using pre-programmed flight plan or using complex autonomous dynamical systems. UAV development was initiated by the military in order to reduce costs and human casualties. Just the fact that the costs of maintenance and making one UAV consists of one tenth of a modern aircraft says enough.The biggest challenge in modeling UAV is the course navigation and positioning unmanned aerial vehicles, weather it is military or civilian use. Today the most often integration is the one of two sensors: INS (inertial navigation system) and GNSS
(global navigation sattelite system). Following the historical development up to the present it has been shown how much progress has been made in this direction. At the present time there has been an increase in the number and types of sensors that UAV may contain, and therefore to spread their use. By reducing the cost of sensors and reducing their size is no doubt that in the near future will achieve commercial application in modern agriculture, photogrammetry...
Keywords
Unmanned aircraft vehicle; INS; GNSS; UAV; UAV navigation; Sensor integration
Hrčak ID:
125500
URI
Publication date:
26.6.2014.
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