Monocular-SLAM-based navigation for autonomous micro helicopters in GPS-denied environments

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 854-874

  Weiss, Stephan ^a   Scaramuzza, Davide ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VEHICLE; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; GPS SIGNALS; INERTIAL SENSOR; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MICRO HELICOPTERS; MONOCULAR VISION; NOVEL SOLUTIONS; OFF-LINE PROCESSING; OPTIMAL CONTROLLER; REAL TIME; RUNNING-IN; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SETPOINTS; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPING; SINGLE CAMERAS; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; TRAJECTORY FOLLOWING; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF; VISUAL SLAM;

HELICOPTERS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; VEHICLES; VISION AIDS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 80054052741     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20412     Document Type: Article

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