Vision-based horizon extraction for micro air vehicle flight control

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1067-1072

  Bao, Gui Qiu ^a   Xiong, Shen Shu ^a   Zhou, Zhao Ying ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Control; Horizon extraction; Micro air vehicles (MAVs); Vision

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; TABLE LOOKUP; VISION;

FLIGHT CONTROL; HORIZON EXTRACTION; MICRO AIR VEHICLES (MAVS);

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 20544471218     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.847234     Document Type: Article

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