Learning monocular reactive UAV control in cluttered natural environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1765-1772

  Ross, Stephane ^a   Melik Barkhudarov, Narek ^a   Shankar, Kumar Shaurya ^a   Wendel, Andreas ^b   Dey, Debadeepta ^a   Bagnell, J Andrew ^a   Hebert, Martial ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; CONSTANT VELOCITIES; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; IMITATION LEARNING; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER;

CAMERAS; FORESTRY; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); ROBOTS; SENSORS;

ROBOTICS;

AIR CRAFT; CAMERAS; FORESTRY; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

EID: 84887290913     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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