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«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «MATHEMATICS»
«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «MATEMATIKA»
ISSN 1997-7670 (Print)
ISSN 2541-8785 (Online)

List of issues > Series «Mathematics». 2025. Vol 53

Navigation of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Based on Registration and Transmission of Observations of the Surrounding Landscape

Author(s)

Alexander B. Miller1, Karen V. Stepanyan1, Boris M. Miller1, Alexey K. Popov1

1A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS 

Abstract
Navigation by observations of current video images is one of the most promising means for control of unmanned vehicles in conditions of limited access to signals from global positioning satellite systems. In the autonomous motion mode, simply adding a video camera in the absence of recognition and interpretation tools to the inertial navigation system does not provide a significant effect. Therefore, extracting navigation information from a sequence of images plays a key role. An important characteristic of the observed images is the evolution of the generated information flow, the processing of which allows us to estimate the absolute linear and angular velocities of the device, which is a significant expansion of the capabilities of the control system.
About the Authors

Alexander B. Miller, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, Moscow, 127051, Russian Federation, amiller@iitp.ru

Karen V. Stepanyan, Cand. Sci. (Phys.-Math), Assoc. Prof., Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, 127051, Moscow, Russian Federation, KVStepanyan@iitp.ru

Boris M. Miller, Dr. Sci. (Phys.-Math.), Prof., Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, 127051, Moscow, Russia, bmiller@iitp.ru

Alexey K. Popov, Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, 127051, Moscow, Russia, ap@iitp.ru


For citation
Miller A. B., Stepanyan K. V., Miller B. M., Popov A. K. Navigation of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Based on Registration and Transmission of Observations of the Surrounding Landscape. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Mathematics, 2025, vol. 53, pp. 18–34. (in Russian). https://doi.org/10.26516/1997-7670.2025.53.18
Keywords
navigation, unmanned vehicle, image sequence, velocity estimation
UDC
519.7
MSC
93-10, 93C41
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/1997-7670.2025.53.18
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