A comparative study of optical flow and traditional sensors in UAV navigation

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3858-3863

  Chao, Haiyang ^a   Gu, Yu ^a   Gross, Jason ^a   Guo, Guodong ^a   Fravolini, Mario L ^a   Napolitano, Marcello R ^b  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; GPS VELOCITIES; NAVIGATION SENSORS; ROTATION AXIS; SCALE INVARIANT FEATURE TRANSFORM ALGORITHMS (SIFT); STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRANSLATIONAL MOTIONS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NAVIGATION; PIXELS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

OPTICAL FLOWS;

EID: 84883113295     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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