Toward 30-gram autonomous indoor aircraft: Vision-based obstacle avoidance and altitude control

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2594-2599

  Zufferey, Jean Christophe ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Altitude control; Collision avoidance; Indoor flying robot; Optic flow; Steering control

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER VISION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALTITUDE CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS INDOOR AIRCRAFT; AUTONOMOUS STEERING; INDOOR FLYING PLATFORMS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33846183797     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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