Robot vision: Obstacle-avoidance techniques for unmanned aerial vehicles

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 22-31

  Carloni, Raffaella ^a   Lippiello, Vincenzo ^b   D'Auria, Massimo ^b   Fumagalli, Matteo ^a   Mersha, Abeje Y ^a   Stramigioli, Stefano ^a   Siciliano, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; FORCE FEEDBACK DEVICES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; VISUAL IDENTIFICATION;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE MATCHING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84890552773     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2013.2283632     Document Type: Article

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