Obstacle avoidance for unmanned air vehicles using image feature tracking

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2006

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3406-3414

  Call, Brandon ^a,b   Beard, Randy ^a   Taylor, Clark ^a   Barber, Blake ^a,b  

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

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VIDEO CAMERAS;

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; CONTROL LAW; IMAGE FEATURE TRACKING; VIDEO FRAMES;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE;

EID: 33845762353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-6541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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