Towards vision-based safe landing for an autonomous helicopter

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 19-29

  Garcia Pardo, Pedro J ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^b   Montgomery, James F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous helicopter; Contrast measures; Safe landing; Texture scale; Vision based landing

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HELICOPTERS; ROBOTICS;

AERIAL ROBOTS; AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037203744     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(01)00166-X     Document Type: Article

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