An Autonomous Blimp for a Surveillance System

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1820-1825

  Fukao, Takanori ^a,b   Fujitani, Kazushi ^a,b   Kanade, Takeo ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feature tracking; Structure from motion; Surveillance systems; Underactuated systems; Unmanned blimp

Indexed keywords

SURVEILLANCE BLIMP SYSTEM; UNDERACTUATED SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROPELLERS; ROTATION; STATE ESTIMATION; TORQUE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0347409481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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