Vision-based autonomous approach and landing for an aircraft using a direct visual tracking method

ICINCO 2009 - 6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Proceedings

Volumn 2 RA, Issue , 2009, Pages 94-101

  Gonçalves, Tiago F ^a   Azinheira, José R ^a   Rives, Patrick ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Aircraft autonomous approach and landing; Dense visual tracking; Linear optimal control; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCE; AUTO-LANDING; CONTROL LOOP; COST-EFFECTIVE SOLUTIONS; EFFICIENT SECOND-ORDER MINIMIZATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENERAL AVIATION; HOMOGRAPHY MATRICES; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; INSTRUMENT LANDING SYSTEMS; MATCHING ERROR; OPTIMAL CONTROL DESIGN; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; RADAR IMAGERY; SIMULATION RESULT; VISION BASED; VISION BASED CONTROL; VISION-BASED SYSTEM; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SIGNALS; VISUAL TRACKING;

AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LANDING; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; ROBOTICS; TRACKING RADAR; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 74549223092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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