On-board vision-based sense-and-avoid for small UAVs

AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dennis, A ^a   Archibald, J ^a   Edwards, B ^a   Lee, D J ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL AIRSPACE; COMPUTATION ENGINE; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION; FIELD OF VIEWS; FPGA-BASED PLATFORMS; GROUND PLANES; HOMOGRAPHY MATRICES; MANNED AIRCRAFT; MOTION VECTORS; MOVING OBJECTS; PAYLOAD CAPABILITIES; REAL TIME VISION; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; SINGLE CAMERAS; SYSTEMS UNDER DEVELOPMENT; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES; VISION BASED; VISUAL DETECTION;

CAMERAS; NAVIGATION; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA);

EID: 78651096060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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