On-board velocity estimation and closed-loop control of a quadrotor UAV based on optical flow

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 491-497

  Grabe, Volker ^a   Bülthoff, Heinrich H ^a,b   Giordano, Paolo Robuffo ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ANTENNAS; HARDWARE; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); OPTICAL FLOWS; ROBOTICS;

CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; UAV (UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES); VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 84864470597     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225328     Document Type: Conference Paper

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