Autonomous vision-based landing and terrain mapping using an MPC-controlled unmanned rotorcraft

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1349-1356

  Templeton, Todd ^a   Shim, David Hyunchul ^b   Geyer, Christopher ^c   Sastry, S Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT PATTERN; GEOREFERENCED IMAGES; REFERENCE TRAJECTORY; TERRAIN ANALYSIS MODULE;

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; VISUAL SERVOING;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 36348946322     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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