Visual servoing of an autonomous helicopter urban areas using feature tracking

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 23, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 185-199

  Mejías, Luis ^a   Saripalli, Srikanth ^b   Campoy, Pascual ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION); VELOCITY CONTROL;

AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTER; FEATURE TRACKING SYSTEM; FLIGHT CONTROL; VISUAL SENSING; VISUAL SERVOING;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 33745686555     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20115     Document Type: Article

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