Towards palm-size autonomous helicopters

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 61, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 445-471

  Bouabdallah, Samir ^a   Bermes, Christian ^a   Grzonka, Slawomir ^b   Gimkiewicz, Christiane ^c   Brenzikofer, Alain ^c   Hahn, Robert ^d   Schafroth, Dario ^a   Grisetti, Giorgio ^b   Burgard, Wolfram ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CSEM   (Switzerland)

^d FRAUNHOFER IZM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graph based SLAM; Micro actuators; Micro helicopter; Multi directional triangulation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; GRAPH-BASED; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH-POWER; HIGHLY INTEGRATED; LASER SCANNER; MICRO HELICOPTER; MICRO HELICOPTERS; MICRO ROBOTICS; MICRO VISION; MICRO-MOTORS; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS; PROCESSING POWER; SYSTEM LEVEL INTEGRATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ACTUATORS; ALGORITHMS; FUEL CELLS; NAVIGATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TRIANGULATION;

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 79951510232     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-010-9483-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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