Vision-based detection and tracking of aerial targets for UAV collision avoidance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 87-92

  Mejias, Luis ^a   McNamara, Scott ^a   Lai, John ^a   Ford, Jason ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED WARNINGS; AERIAL ROBOTICS; AERIAL TARGETS; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; COLLISION DETECTION ALGORITHM; DETECTION APPROACH; GRAPHIC PROCESSING UNITS; HUMAN PILOTS; LOW COSTS; MACHINE VISION; POWER REQUIREMENT; PROCESSING RATES; RESPONSE TIME; VISION BASED; VISION DATA; VISION-BASED DETECTION;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SENSORS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 78651490755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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