Robust cooperative UAV Visual SLAM

2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems, CIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Nemra, A ^a   Aouf, N ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

feature uncertainty; loop closure; Nonlinear Hinfin; filter; SLAM; UAV

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE VEHICLES; FEATURE UNCERTAINTY; FILTERING SCHEMES; LOOP CLOSURE; NONLINEAR H; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; SLAM; VISUAL SLAM;

FILTRATION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INVERSE KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; ROBOTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 79960352492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UKRICIS.2010.5898125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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