Three Nested Kalman Filters-based algorithm for real-time estimation of optical flow, UAV motion and obstacles detection

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4746-4751

  Kendoul, Farid ^a   Fantoni, Isabelle ^a   Dherbomez, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Optical flow computation; Small flying robots; Structure from motion; Vision based autopilot

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

OPTICAL FLOW COMPUTATION; SMALL FLYING ROBOTS; VISION-BASED AUTOPILOTS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 36348949770     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.364210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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