A vision based onboard approach for landing and position control of an autonomous multirotor UAV in GPS-denied environments

2009 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lange, Sven ^a   Sünderhauf, Niko ^a   Protzel, Peter ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS LANDING; CONTROLLER STRUCTURES; GPS SIGNALS; OPTICAL FLOW SENSORS; VISION BASED; VISION-BASED DETECTION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDING; NAVIGATION; OPTICAL FLOWS; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

POSITION CONTROL;

EID: 70449420096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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