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Navigation & State Estimation ◆ Ardupilot Core ◆ Deep Dive #01

The Kalman Filter

How Ardupilot knows where it is, which way it's pointing, and how fast it's moving — even when every individual sensor is wrong.

EKF3 Sensor Fusion IMU GPS State Estimation Navigation

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Episode 1 — The Concept
Episode 2 — Technical Deep Dive
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