Autonomous quadrotor flight with vision-based obstacle avoidance in virtual environment

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 894-905

  Eresen, Aydin ^a   Imamoǧlu, Nevrez ^b   Önder Efe, Mehmet ^c  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKISH AERONAUTICAL ASSOCIATION   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Obstacle avoidance; Optical flow; Vision based control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; AUTONOMOUS UAV; CRITICAL EFFECTS; DESTINATION POINTS; DETECTABILITY; LOW LEVEL CONTROL; PATH FOLLOWING; PID CONTROLLERS; QUADROTORS; THRESHOLDING; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VISION BASED; VISION BASED CONTROL; VISION BASED NAVIGATION; YAW ANGLES;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; OPTICAL FLOWS; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 81855208950     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.07.087     Document Type: Article

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