Performance evaluation of vision-based navigation and landing on a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hubbard, David ^a   Morse, Bryan ^a   Theodore, Colin ^b   Tischler, Mark ^b   McLain, Timothy ^c  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDING SITE; MORAVEC'S PSEUDO-NORMALIZED CORRELATION TRACKING; POSITION ESTIMATION; VISION-BASED NAVIGATION;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDING; NAVIGATION; ROTORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 34547234502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WACV.2007.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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