Landing on a moving target using an autonomous helicopter

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue , 2006, Pages 277-286

  Saripalli, Srikanth ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICOPTERS; ROBOTICS; VISUAL SERVOING;

AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; MOMENTS OF INERTIA; MOVING TARGETS; TARGET RECOGNITION; TRACKING ALGORITHM; TRAJECTORY CONTROLLERS; VISION BASED ALGORITHMS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 33748935362     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10991459_27     Document Type: Article

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