Evaluation of machine vision algorithms for autonomous aerial refueling for unmanned aerial vehicles

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 968-985

  Fravolini, M L ^a   Campa, G ^b,c   Napolitano, M R ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c West Virginia University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATCHING ALGORITHMS; OPTICAL MARKERS; RELATIVE DISTANCE VECTORS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 36048950200     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17269     Document Type: Article

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