Quadrocopter control using an on-board video system with off-board processing

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 657-667

  Bonak, Matev ^a   Matko, Drago ^a   Blai, Sao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Kalman filtering; LQR control; Position estimation; Quadrocopter; Unmanned aerial vehicle

Indexed keywords

DATA-FUSION ALGORITHMS; EXTERNAL SENSORS; FULLY-AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; INERTIAL SENSOR; KALMAN-FILTERING; LQR CONTROL; POSITION ESTIMATION; QUADROCOPTER; QUADROTORS; VEHICLE POSITIONING; VIDEO SYSTEMS; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84857039296     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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