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About Steven D. Young
Steven D. Young is a senior research scientist at NASA with more than 30 years of experience in the related fields of safety assurance, avionics systems engineering and human-machine interaction.
Posts by Steven D. Young
Outdoor-to-indoor UAV: GPS/optical/inertial integration for 3D navigation
Posted on 11 Oct 2017 in the Featured Stories & UAV/UGV categories.
When a platform’s mission requires maneuvering among different environments, transitions between these environments may mean that a single method cannot solve the full positioning, navigation and mapping problem. This article describes an integrated navigation and mapping design using a GPS receiver, an inertial measurement unit, a monocular digital camera and three short-to-medium range laser scanners. Read more»
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