Airplane attitude estimation using computer vision: Simple method and actual experiments

Electronics Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 1303-1305

  Pereira, G A S ^a   Iscold, P ^a   Torres, L A B ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS; ACTUAL FLIGHTS; ATTITUDE ESTIMATIONS; ATTITUDE REFERENCE SYSTEMS; HORIZON SYSTEMS; LIGHT AIRCRAFT; PITCH ANGLES; SIMPLE ALGORITHMS; SIMPLE METHODS;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 54849424981     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20081184     Document Type: Article

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