Hovering flight and vertical landing control of a VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using optical flow

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 801-806

  Herisse, Bruno ^a   Russotto, Francois Xavier ^a   Hamel, Tarek ^b   Mahony, Robert ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC LANDING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; FEED BACK INFORMATION; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; QUADROTORS; RIGID BODY; SENSOR SUITE; TARGET PLANE; VERTICAL LANDING; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS; VTOL VEHICLE;

FEEDBACK; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LANDING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 69549084677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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