Thesis

My Msc Thesis is about hierarchical localization for aerial vehicle use. Localization by itself is about finding the location of an object. In our case in which we are working with aerial vehicles, we want to find the location of the vehicle. Of the sensors that are used for aerial localization the camera is best suited for localization (after GPS) as it can pick up images of the underlying terrain and register it against a provided map.
As outlined by the before, our approach towards this problem will be a hierarchical, meaning that we want to be able to find our position in a number of approximative steps. The procedure will first make a guess at the possible position of the aerial vehicle, and then, in each subsequent step it will refine its guess till it reaches an acceptable accuracy.
There already exist a number of work that try to perform localization hierarchically and these will be discussed in subsequent posts.