A vision-based landing system for small unmanned aerial vehicles using an airbag

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 812-823

  Huh, Sungsik ^a   Shim, David Hyunchul ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Automatic landing; Direct visual servoing; Geolocation.; Image moments; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC LANDING; AUTOMATIC LANDING SYSTEMS; FLIGHT TEST; GEOLOCATIONS; IMAGE MOMENTS; ISOTROPIC SHAPE; LANDING SYSTEM; LOW SPEED FLIGHT; NAVIGATION SENSORS; ROBUST DETECTION; SHAPE BASED; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; TERMINAL GUIDANCE; VARYING LIGHTING; VISION ALGORITHMS; VISION BASED;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; DOMES; LANDING; MANEUVERABILITY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; VISUAL SERVOING;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 77953621682     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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