Vision-based obstacle avoidance for UAVs

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2007

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages 4862-4872

  Watanabe, Yoko ^a   Calise, Anthony J ^a   Johnson, Eric N ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Avionics Integration ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TARGET TRACKING; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER (EKF); MINIMUM-EFFORT GUIDANCE (MEG); MULTIPLE TARGET TRACKING;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 37249000782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-6829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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