A simple low cost vision system for small unmanned VTOL vehicles

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3480-3486

  Kontitsis, M ^a   Valavanis, K P ^a   Garcia, R ^a  

^a ENB 118   (United States)

Author keywords

Landmark recognition; Mine detection; Surveillance; Unmanned vehicles

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT LANDING; ANTENNAS; COSTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AERIAL VEHICLE; ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; CRITICAL CONSTRAINTS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; LANDMARK RECOGNITION; MINE DETECTIONS; PROCESSING POWER; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS;

VTOL/STOL AIRCRAFT;

EID: 79957986560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545474     Document Type: Conference Paper

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