The landing problem of a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving platform using optical flow

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1600-1605

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; FEED BACK INFORMATION; LANDING CONTROL; LANDING PROBLEMS; MOVING PLATFORM; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; SENSOR SUITE; TARGET PLANE; VERTICAL LANDING; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS; VTOL VEHICLE;

FEEDBACK; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LANDING; OPTICAL FLOWS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 78651487253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5652633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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