Augmenting UAV autonomy

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 63-71

  Ludington, Ben ^a   Johnson, Eric ^b   Vachtsevanos, George ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated search; Computer vision; Particle filter; UAVs; Vision based navigation; Visual target tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047199078     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2006.1678140     Document Type: Article

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