Vision-guided flight stability and control for micro air vehicles

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 617-640

  Ettinger, Scott M ^a   Nechyba, Michael C ^a   Ifju, Peter G ^a   Waszak, Martin ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial robotics; Real time control; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

AERIAL ROBOTICS; REAL TIME CONTROL; REMOTELY PILOTED MICRO AIR VEHICLES; STATISTICAL VISION BASED ALGORITHM; VISION BASED CONTROL; VISION GUIDED FLIGHT STABILITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0141732250     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855303769156983     Document Type: Article

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