River mapping from a flying robot: State estimation, river detection, and obstacle mapping

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 189-214

  Scherer, Sebastian ^a   Rehder, Joern ^b   Achar, Supreeth ^a   Cover, Hugh ^a   Chambers, Andrew ^a   Nuske, Stephen ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D ladar scanning; 3D obstacle mapping; Micro aerial vehicles; Self supervised learning; Visual localization

Indexed keywords

3-D LADAR; 3D OBSTACLES; ACTIVE EXPLORATIONS; FLYING ROBOTS; GROUND LEVEL; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; INERTIAL SENSING; LASER SCANNING; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MULTIMODAL PERCEPTION; OBSTACLE MAPPING; POWER CONSTRAINTS; RIVER COURSE; SHORE LINES; TREE LEVEL; VISUAL LOCALIZATION;

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER VISION; FORESTRY; HELICOPTER ROTORS; MAPPING; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); OPTICAL RADAR; ROTORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RIVERS;

AIR CRAFT; FORESTRY; HELICOPTERS; MAPPING; RIVERS; ROTORS; SCANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN; VEHICLES;

EID: 84862148768     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-012-9293-0     Document Type: Article

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