Department of Aerospace Engineering

Koray Celik, Soon-Jo Chung, and Arun Somani Awarded "Best Paper" at 2008 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT)

 

Contacts:  Soon-Jo Chung, Aerospace Engineering, 4-5459, sjchungiastate.edu; Sue McLaughlin, Aerospace Engineering, 4-5666, smclaughiastate.edu

Koray Celik, Soon-Jo Chung, and Arun Somani recently won "Best Paper Award" at the IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology on May 19, 2008.  The title of this paper is "Mono-Vision Center SLAM for Indoor Navigation."

Their paper presents a real-time monocular vision based range measurement method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) for an Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) with significantly constrained payload.  The proposed navigation strategy assumes a GPS denied manmade environment, whose indoor architecture is represented via corner based feature points obtained through a monocular camera.

Koray Celik is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering that Professors Arun Somani and Soon-Jo Chung co-advise.  Soon-Jo Chung is Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Aerospace Robotics Laboratory (ARL).  Arun Somani is Distinguished Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering department. 

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