Safety, security, and rescue missions with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) : Aerial mosaicking and autonomous flight at the 2009 European Land Robots Trials (ELROB) and the 2010 Response Robot Evaluation Exercises (RREE)

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-76

  Birk, Andreas ^a   Wiggerich, Burkhard ^b   Bülow, Heiko ^a   Pfingsthorn, Max ^a   Schwertfeger, Sören ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b AirRobot GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Mosaicking; Registration; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV); Visual SLAM

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; AUTONOMY; DIGITAL VIDEO STREAMS; FIELD TEST; FOURIER; MOSAICKING; OPERATOR STATIONS; REAL TIME; REGISTRATION; RESCUE MISSIONS; SECURITY MISSIONS; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; VISUAL SLAM; WAYPOINTS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MAPS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 80053299481     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-011-9546-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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