Visual control of an unmanned aerial vehicle for power line inspection

2005 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR '05, Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 288-295

  Golightly, Ian ^b   Jones, Dewi ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL-VISION SYSTEM; CLOSED-LOOP VISION SYSTEM; FREE-FLYING AIRCRAFT; VISUAL CONTROL;

AIRCRAFT; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33744532212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2005.1507426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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