A low-power visual horizon estimation chip

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4755-4758

  Horiuchi, Timothy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog VLSI; Autonomous flight control; Micro aerial vehicles.; Smart sensor

Indexed keywords

ANALOG VLSI; AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT CONTROL; CMOS PROCESS; FLIGHT CONTROL; HIGH ALTITUDE; HORIZON SENSOR; IMAGE INTENSITIES; LOW POWER; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MICRO-AERIAL VEHICLES.; POWER SUPPLY; PROTOTYPE SENSOR; REAL TIME SENSORS;

AIRCRAFT; SMART SENSORS;

FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 67649094352     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2005.1465695     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. T. Netter and N. Franceschini, "Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth flight using optical flow," Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings, vol. 1674, pp. 334-338, 1999.
2. W. E. Green, P. Y. Oh, K. Sevcik, and G. L. Barrows, "Autonomous Landing for Indoor Flying Robots Using Optic Flow," presented at ASME Intl Mech. Engr. Congress, Washington D.C., 2003.
3. B. Taylor, C. Bil, and S. Watkins, "Horizon Sensing Attitude Stabilization: A VMC Autopilot," presented at 18th Intl. UAV Systems Conference, Bristol, UK, 2003.
4. Futaba, "Futaba(R) PA-2: Pilot Assist Link Auto Pilot System," (http://www.futaba-rc.com/radioaccys/futm0999.html), 2004.
5. S. M. Ettinger, M. C. Nechyba, P. G. Ifju, and M. Waszak, "Visionguided flight stability and control for micro air vehicles," Advanced Robotics, vol. 17, pp. 617-640, 2003.
6. R. Möller, "Insects could exploit UV-green contrast for Landmark navigation," J Theor Biol, vol. 214, pp. 619-31, 2002.