Design of a 3D snapshot based visual flight control system using a single camera in hover

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 34, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 19-34

  Garratt, Matthew A ^a   Lambert, Andrew J ^a   Teimoori, Hamid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Micro Air Vehicle (MAV); Optic flow; Visual guidance

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR POINT; CLOSED LOOP STABILITY; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; EFFECTS OF SCALE; OPTIC FLOW; POSITION CONTROLLER; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; SINGLE CAMERAS; SMALL SIZE HELICOPTER; VISUAL GUIDANCE;

ALGORITHMS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84873060039     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-012-9310-3     Document Type: Article

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