Wall inspection control of a VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle based on a stereo optical flow

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4296-4302

  Lippiello, Vincenzo ^a   Siciliano, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTER OF GRAVITY; INSPECTION TASKS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; STEREO VISION SYSTEM; VEHICLE VELOCITY; VIRTUAL CAMERA; VISUAL DATA; VISUAL MEASUREMENTS; WALL INSPECTION; YAW ANGLES;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FLOWS; STEREO VISION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

INSPECTION;

EID: 84872301537     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385514     Document Type: Conference Paper

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