Airborne vision-based collision-detection system

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-157

  Lai, John ^a   Mejias, Luis ^a   Ford, Jason J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTICS; AIRCRAFT TRAJECTORY; ATTRACTIVE SOLUTIONS; AUTONOMOUS UAV; CANDIDATE TARGET; CESSNA AIRCRAFT; COLLISION-DETECTION; COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; DETECTION APPROACH; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; FLIGHT TRIALS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HUMAN PILOTS; IMAGE DATA; LOW COSTS; MACHINE VISION; ONBOARD CAMERA; PARALLEL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES; PIXEL IMAGES; POWER REQUIREMENT; REALTIME PROCESSING; RESPONSE TIME; TRAFFIC ALERT AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEMS; UAV PLATFORM; VISION BASED; VISION SENSORS;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENTS; COMPUTER VISION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 79951498279     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20359     Document Type: Article

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