A visual-servo-based assistant system for unmanned helicopter control

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 822-827

  Watanabe, Kei ^a   Iwatani, Yasushi ^a   Nonaka, Kenichiro ^b   Hashimoto, Koichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL CHANNELS; CONTROL SIGNAL; INPUT DEVICES; MOTION GENERATION; REFERENCE SIGNALS; STATIONARY CAMERAS; SYSTEM DESIGN; TRAINING SYSTEMS; UNMANNED HELICOPTER; VISUAL SERVO;

FLIGHT SIMULATORS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 69549124125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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