Landmark extraction and state estimation for UAV operation in forest

Chinese Control Conference, CCC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5210-5215

  Cui, Jinqiang ^a,b   Wang, Fei ^a,b   Dong, Xiangxu ^b   Ang Zong Yao, Kevin ^b   Chen, Ben M ^b   Lee, Tong H ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Feature Extraction; Scan Matching; Scan Segmentation; State Estimation

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATE ESTIMATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

DATA ASSOCIATION; DESCRIPTORS; ESSENTIAL PROBLEMS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LASER SCANS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; SCAN MATCHING; SCANNING LASER RANGEFINDERS;

FORESTRY;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84890488766     PISSN: 19341768     EISSN: 21612927     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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