A visual navigation system for autonomous flight of micro air vehicles

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3888-3893

  Kendoul, Farid ^a   Nonami, Kenzo ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; EGO-MOTION; HIERARCHICAL CONTROLLERS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; NAVIGATION TASKS; ONBOARD CAMERA; POSE ESTIMATION; QUADROTORS; SAFE LANDING; VALIDATION RESULTS; VISUAL ESTIMATE; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL NAVIGATION;

AIR NAVIGATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LANDING; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); TARGET TRACKING; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 76249114212     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354730     Document Type: Conference Paper

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