A vision system for optic-flow-based guidance of UAVs

Proceedings of the 2007 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Soccol, Dean ^a,b   Thurrowgood, Saul ^a,b   Srinivasan, Mandyam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSING; COMPLEX MOTION; GUIDANCE SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL; OPTIC FLOW; PASSIVE SENSING; REFLECTIVE SURFACES; REMAPPING; TERRAIN MAPS; VISION SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

VIDEO CAMERAS;

EID: 84855578053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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