OCTAVE, a bioinspired visuo-motor control system for the guidance of micro-air-vehicles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5119, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-12

  Ruffier, Franck ^a   Franceschini, Nicolas ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

AFCS (Automatic Flight Control System); Bioinspired vision; Biorobotics; MAV (Micro Air Vehicles); Optic flow; UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle); Visual guidance

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; OPTICAL FLOWS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VISION;

AUTOMATIC FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM; BIOINSPIRED VISION; BIOINSPIRED VISUO-MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM; BIOROBOTICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDING; ELEMENTARY MOTION DETECTOR; MICRO AIR VEHICLES; OPTICAL ALTITUDE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; OPTICAL MICROSTIMULI; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE;

BIOCONTROL;

EID: 0041827080     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.498193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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