A comparison of two camera configurations for optic-flow based navigation of a UAV through urban canyons

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 2673-2680

  Hrabar, Stefan ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HELICOPTERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FLOWS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS;

CAMERA CONFIGURATIONS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); URBAN CANYONS; VISION HARDWARE;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 14044272822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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