Self-aware helicopters: Full-scale automated landing and obstacle avoidance in unmapped environments

Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 3210-3219

  Chamberlain, Lyle ^a   Scherer, Sebastian ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D-LADAR; AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; AUTONOMOUS LANDING; AVOID OBSTACLES; FLIGHT TRAJECTORY; HUMAN CONTROL; LANDING ZONES; LOW-ALTITUDE FLIGHT; PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; SAFE LANDING; SELF-AWARE; UNMANNED HELICOPTER;

HELICOPTERS; OPTICAL RADAR; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

LANDING;

EID: 79960667442     PISSN: 15522938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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