Feature matching algorithms for machine vision based autonomous aerial refueling

14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Fravolini, M L ^a   Brunori, V ^a   Ficola, A ^a   La Cava, M ^a   Campa, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AERIAL REFUELING; DISTANCE ESTIMATION SENSORS; FEATURE MATCHING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL FEEDBACK SIGNALS;

ALGORITHMS; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; FEEDBACK; PROBLEM SOLVING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VIRTUAL REALITY;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 35948984221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2006.328792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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