Autonomous Landing for Indoor Flying Robots Using Optic Flow

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Publication) DSC

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1347-1352

  Green, William E ^a   Oh, Paul Y ^a   Sevcik, Keith ^a   Barrows, Geoffrey ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Centeye Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); BUILDINGS; CAMERAS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DISASTER PREVENTION; LANDING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROSENSORS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; TAKEOFF; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CLOSED QUARTER AERIAL ROBOTS (CQAR); OPTIC FLOWS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 1842509860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2003-55424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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