Detection and tracking of external features in an urban environment using an autonomous helicopter

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 3972-3977

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomous aerial vehicles; Feature tracking; Kalman filter

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HELICOPTERS; KALMAN FILTERING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; FEATURE TRACKING; URBAN ENVIRONMENT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33751242654     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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