First results in detecting and avoiding frontal obstacles from a monocular camera for micro unmanned aerial vehicles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1750-1757

  Mori, Tomoyuki ^a   Scherer, Sebastian ^b  

^a MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT; FEATURE MATCH; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MONOCULAR CAMERAS; PAYLOAD CONSTRAINTS; RELATIVE SIZES;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; IMAGE MATCHING; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); OPTICAL FLOWS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84887297957     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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