Optic-flow based slope estimation for autonomous landing

International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 287-297

  De Croon, G ^a   Ho, H ^a   De Wagter, C ^a   Van Kampen, E ^a   Remes, B ^a   Chu, Q ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL IMAGE; AUTONOMOUS LANDING; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; LANDING CAPABILITY; ROBOTIC EXPERIMENTS; SECOND-ORDER APPROXIMATION; SLOPE ESTIMATION; VISION ALGORITHMS;

FLOW FIELDS; LANDING; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); TARGET DRONES; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84892496718     PISSN: 17568293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1756-8293.5.4.287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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