Vision-guided autonomous quad-rotor helicopter flight stabilization and control

AUVSI Unmanned Systems North America Conference 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 815-829

  Fowers, Spencer G ^a   Tippetts, Beau J ^a   Lee, D J ^a   Archibald, James K ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color segmentation; Computer vision; Feature tracking; IMU; Kalman filter; MAV; Quad rotor; UAV

Indexed keywords

COLOR SEGMENTATION; FEATURE-TRACKING; IMU; MAV; QUAD-ROTOR; UAV;

ALTITUDE CONTROL; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HELICOPTER ROTORS; KALMAN FILTERS; STABILIZATION; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 78649963966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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