How Our SAR Drones Localize Without GPS

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What it will cover: how our search-and-rescue UAVs know where they are when GPS doesn’t exist — visual-inertial odometry as the backbone, fusing multiple odometry sources with graceful degradation, switching localization sources mid-flight, and the failure modes we hit in tunnels, buildings and forests before the system became trustworthy.




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