Course Objective:
- Knowledge about technology of modern navigation systems
- Satellite-based systems
- UAV guidance systems
- GPS
- SLAM
- Basic principle of operation of a global navigation satellite system
- Understand the navigation systems and derive the navigation equations
- Carry out path planning the UGV / UAV
- Solve the equations for calculating a position estimate from a given satellite constellation
- Introduction on navigation and guidance systems
- Guidance approaches: conventional guidance such as PN (Proportional Navigation)
- Geodetic fundamentals of navigation, positioning, reference- and coordinate systems and computational methods for navigation and positioning on the surface of the earth
- Geometric guidance
- Path planning and following
- Optimal Guidance
- Path planning for UGV/UAV guidance systems
- Navigation systems
- Understanding the Global Positioning System (GPS)
- GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System), terrain based navigation
- SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping)
- Cooperative guidance and collision avoidance