Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Positioning by Data from Pocket Device Sensors

An accuracy and availability of positioning of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are important components of mission success and safety of aviation. We consider a possibility to use a sensor assembly of personal pocket device (PPD) for direct measurement and remote data processing for UAV positioning and navigation. Deep integration of PPD in human life and variety of PPDs available in market reduce price of UAV navigation system and make possible to process data remotely and independently from PPD model/ type. We describe inertial navigation approach as a stand-by for a case of GNSS lock with data processing in computation cluster and usage of sensor assembly hard fixed on UAV body.