UAV attitude control using the visual horizon

Proceedings of the 2010 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thurrowgood, Saul ^a,b   Moore, Richard J D ^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

CAMERA IMAGES; INTENSITY INFORMATION; VISION BASED ALGORITHMS;

AIRCRAFT; ATTITUDE CONTROL; CAMERAS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84855598690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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