Landing a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving platform using optical flow

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-89

  Herissé, Bruno ^a   Hamel, Tarek ^b   Mahony, Robert ^c   Russotto, François Xavier ^d  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Automatic landing; nonlinear control; optical flow; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC LANDING; CONTROL STRATEGIES; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LANDING CONTROL; MOVING PLATFORM; NON LINEAR CONTROL; NON-LINEAR CONTROLLERS; QUADROTORS; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; SENSOR SUITE; TARGET PLANE; VERTICAL LANDING; VERTICAL TAKE-OFF AND LANDINGS; VTOL VEHICLE;

LANDING; OPTICAL FLOWS; SYSTEM STABILITY; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84857030983     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2011.2163435     Document Type: Article

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