A contribution to vision-based autonomous helicopter flight in urban environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 195-209

  Muratet, Laurent ^a   Doncieux, Stephane ^a   Briere, Yves ^b   Meyer, Jean Arcady ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Helicopter; Obstacle avoidance; Optic flow; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; VISION;

HIGH-LEVEL CONTROLLERS; LOW-LEVEL CONTROLLERS; OPTIC FLOW; URBAN ENVIRONMENT;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 13944257827     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2004.09.017     Document Type: Article

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