Obstacle detection for small autonomous aircraft using sky segmentation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4679-4684

  McGee, Timothy G ^a   Sengupta, Raja ^a   Hedrick, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Obstacle avoidance; Sky segmentation; Support vector machine; UAV

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE IN THE LOOP (HIL) SIMULATION; SKY SEGMENTATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

AIRCRAFT; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; REMOTE CONTROL; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

OBSTACLE DETECTORS;

EID: 33845769834     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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