Vision-based landing of fixed-wing miniature air vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2706-2725

  Barber, Blake ^a   McLain, Timothy ^a   Edwards, Barrett ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING SYSTEMS; CAMERAS; FEEDBACK; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATE ESTIMATION; TARGET TRACKING;

FLIGHT TESTS; MINIATURE AIR VEHICLES; MOVING TARGETS; VISION BASED LANDING;

AEROSPACE VEHICLES;

EID: 35648954578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-2984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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