Control and perception techniques for aerial robotics

Annual Reviews in Control

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 167-178

  Ollero, Aníbal ^a   Merino, Luís ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aerial vehicles; Autonomous mobile robots; Autonomous vehicles; Computer vision; Helicopter control; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; FIRE DETECTORS; MOTION ESTIMATION; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; REDUNDANCY; ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AERIAL VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; HELICOPTER CONTROL; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 8444229778     PISSN: 13675788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arcontrol.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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