A general optical flow based terrain-following strategy for a VTOL UAV using multiple views

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3341-3348

  Herisse, Bruno ^a   Oustrieres, Sophie ^a   Hamel, Tarek ^b   Mahony, Robert ^c   Russotto, Francois Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROMETRIC ALTIMETER; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL APPROACH; FORWARD VELOCITY; GENERAL APPROACH; MULTIPLE CAMERAS; MULTIPLE VIEWS; OBSERVATION POINT; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; PLANAR SURFACE; QUADROTORS; RIGID BODY; ROUGH TERRAINS; SENSOR SUITE; TERRAIN FOLLOWING; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS; VTOL VEHICLE; ZERO VALUES;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CLOSED LOOP SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL FLOWS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955798377     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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