Stereo vision and laser odometry for autonomous helicopters in GPS-denied indoor environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7332, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Achtelik, Markus ^a   Bachrach, Abraham ^b   He, Ruijie ^b   Prentice, Samuel ^b   Roy, Nicholas ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Laser odometry; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Visual odometry

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CAMERA SENSOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HELICOPTER PLATFORM; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; KEY COMPONENT; LASER RANGE FINDERS; ODOMETRY; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; RELATIVE MOTION; SENSOR SUITE; STEREO CAMERAS; VISUAL ODOMETRY;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; CAMERAS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); HELICOPTERS; LASERS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RANGE FINDERS; SENSORS; STEREO VISION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 69949187995     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.819082     Document Type: Conference Paper

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