Vision-based estimation of relative pose in autonomous aerial refueling

Chinese Journal of Aeronautics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 807-815

  Ding, Meng ^a   Wei, Li ^b   Wang, Bangfeng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

aerial refueling; machine vision; orthogonal iteration algorithm; pose estimation; unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AERIAL REFUELING; AUTONOMOUS AERIAL REFUELING; ESTIMATION RESULTS; IDENTITY MATRICES; MAIN TASKS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ORIENTATION PARAMETER; ORTHOGONAL ITERATION; POSE ESTIMATION; RELATIVE POSE; ROTATION ANGLES; ROTATION MATRICES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SMALL VARIATIONS; TRANSLATION VECTOR; VISION BASED;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; TANKERS (SHIPS); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84859405749     PISSN: 10009361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1000-9361(11)60095-2     Document Type: Article

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