A vision based system for attitude estimation of UAVs

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5725-5730

  Thurrowgood, Saul ^a,b   Soccol, Dean ^a,b   Moore, Richard J D ^a,b   Bland, Daniel ^a,b   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE ESTIMATION; INTENSITY INFORMATION; REAL-TIME OPERATION; VISION BASED SYSTEM; VISION SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 76249087667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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