Visual servoing applied to real-time stabilization of a multi-rotor UAV

Robotica

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1203-1212

  Romero, Hugo ^a,b   Salazar, Sergio ^b   Lozano, Rogelio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Navigation system; UAVs; Visual servoing

Indexed keywords

CAMERA CALIBRATION; FLYING ROBOTS; HOMOGENEOUS TRANSFORMATIONS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LOCAL POSITIONING; PITCH AND ROLL ANGLES; REAL-TIME EXPERIMENT; SINGLE CAMERAS; TRANSLATIONAL VELOCITY; UAVS; VISION SYSTEMS; YAW ANGLES;

AIRCRAFT; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; HELICOPTER ROTORS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROTORS; STABILIZATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; VISUAL SERVOING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84868094156     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026357471200001X     Document Type: Article

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