Autonomous indoor 3D exploration with a micro-aerial vehicle

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 9-15

  Shen, Shaojie ^a   Michael, Nathan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ADDRESS COMPUTATION; AUTONOMOUS EXPLORATION; EXPLORATION ALGORITHMS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; NEWTONIAN DYNAMICS; SENSOR LIMITATIONS; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 84864473805     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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