Biologically inspired UAV obstacle avoidance and control using monocular optical flow & divergence templates

ICARA 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 378-383

  Stowers, John ^a   Hayes, Michael ^a   Bainbridge Smith, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VEHICLE; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; CONTROL PROCESS; DATA SETS; DEPTH INFORMATION; DEPTH MAP; FLIGHT CONTROL; FOCUS OF EXPANSIONS; INDOOR OPERATIONS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; STRATEGY USE; UNIFORM GRIDS;

OPTICAL FLOWS; ROBOTICS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 84857423030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARA.2011.6144913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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