Motion compensation and object detection for autonomous helicopter visual navigation in the COMETS system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-24

  Ollero, Aníbal ^a   Ferruz, Joaquín ^a   Caballero, Fernando ^a   Hurtado, Sebastián ^a   Merino, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cooperative detection and monitoring; Feature matching; Homography; Image stabilization; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIRCRAFT LANDING; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HELICOPTERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING; MOTION COMPENSATION; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COOPERATIVE DETECTION AND MONITORING; FEATURE MATCHING; HOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE STABILIZATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 3042578017     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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