Robust Navigation - Annual report

This report describes the activities in the project Robust Navigation during year 2004. The following conclusions have been made this year: o Algorithms for collaborative navigation between vehicles have been developed. Results shows improved navigation performance compared with a single vehicle navigation system can achieve. The results have been presented at an international conference. o Small lightweight and cheap navigation sensors can preferably be used in collaboration. o The first evaluations of the experimental data from the high dynamics test indicate that the site for experiments is suitable for exposing navigation sensors to hard tests. The conditions to validate navigation algorithms are good. o Experiments are essential to validate theoretical models for these kind of sensor systems, but time consuming. o The project budget limited the purchase of equipment, which then had to be borrowed instead. This is not feasible in future experiments.