A fast and adaptive method for estimating UAV attitude from the visual horizon

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4935-4940

  Moore, Richard J D ^a,b   Thurrowgood, Saul ^a,b   Bland, Daniel ^a,b   Soccol, Dean ^a,b   Srinivasan, Mandyam V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE METHODS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; FLIGHT TEST; INERTIAL SYSTEMS; INPUT IMAGE; OFFLINE; REAL-TIME OPERATION; REINFORCEMENT STRATEGIES; VISION BASED;

ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455178840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048314     Document Type: Conference Paper

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