Vision-based altitude and pitch estimation for ultra-light indoor microflyers

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2836-2841

  Beyeler, Antoine ^a   Mattiussi, Claudio ^a   Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GYROSCOPES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBOTS; SENSORS; STEREO VISION;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; GYROSCOPIC SENSORS; PITCH ANGLE; VISION SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845637381     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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