An embedded vision system for an unmanned four-rotor helicopter

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6384, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lillywhite, Kirt ^a   Lee, Dah Jye ^a   Tippetts, Beau ^a   Fowers, Spencer ^a   Dennis, Aaron ^a   Nelson, Brent ^a   Archibald, James ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude control; Field programmable gate arrays (FPGA); Robot vision; Unmanned helicopter

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE CONTROL; EMBEDDED VISION SYSTEM; FOUR ROTOR HELICOPTERS; UNMANNED HELICOPTERS;

COMPUTER VISION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; HELICOPTERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAW ENFORCEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROTORS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33751289134     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.686776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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