Simulated autonomous landing of a rotorcraft unmanned aerial vehicle in a non-cooperative environment

Annual Forum Proceedings - American Helicopter Society

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1448-1458

  Hintze, Joshua ^a   Tischler, Mark ^b   Christian, Daniel ^c   McLain, Tim ^a   Theodore, Colin ^d   Montgomery, James ^e  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army AMRDEC Development   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS LANDING; ROTORCRAFTS; STEREO RANGE MAPPING;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTERING; LANDING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; TRANSPONDERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WINGS;

HELICOPTER ROTORS;

EID: 4143075789     PISSN: 07334249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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