Vision-based tracking and position estimation of moving targets for unmanned helicopter systems

Asian Journal of Control

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1270-1283

  Lin, Chien Hong ^a   Hsiao, Fu Yuen ^b   Hsiao, Fei Bin ^c  

^a CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

image processing; Kalman filtering; Target tracking and position estimation; unmanned helicopter

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER VISION; HELICOPTERS; IMAGE PROCESSING; KALMAN FILTERS; MACHINERY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

GROUND MOVING TARGETS; INFLIGHT TESTING; KALMAN FILTERING TECHNIQUES; KALMAN-FILTERING; MACHINE VISION SYSTEMS; POSITION ESTIMATION; UNMANNED HELICOPTER; VISION-BASED TRACKING;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION;

EID: 84884972576     PISSN: 15618625     EISSN: 19346093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asjc.654     Document Type: Article

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