Autonomous landing at unprepared sites by a full-scale helicopter

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1545-1562

  Scherer, Sebastian ^a   Chamberlain, Lyle ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3D perception; Landing zone selection; Lidar; Rotorcraft; UAV

Indexed keywords

3D PERCEPTION; AUTONOMOUS HELICOPTERS; AUTONOMOUS LANDING; GROUND CLUTTER; LANDING SITE; LANDING ZONES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; PLANE FITTING; POINT CLOUD; REAL TIME ALGORITHMS; ROTORCRAFT; STATE OF THE ART; UNKNOWN TERRAIN; UNMANNED HELICOPTER; WIND DIRECTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; LANDING; OPTICAL RADAR; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

HELICOPTERS;

EID: 84869088446     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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