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Presently, most autonomous aerial vehicles rely on satellite navigation such as GPS to sense their position in the earth reference frame. However, reliance on GPS restricts the vehicle to missions where GPS signals are readily received. Motion capture systems are capable of indoor localization but require large infrastructure and are prone to occlusion. To overcome these restrictions, a self-contained...