An approach toward visual autonomous ship board landing of a VTOL UAV

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 74, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 113-127

  Sanchez Lopez, Jose Luis ^a   Pestana, Jesus ^a   Saripalli, Srikanth ^b   Campoy, Pascual ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS   (Spain)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous landing; Computer vision; Ship deck simulation; UAV; VTOL

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS LANDING; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DOWNWARD LOOKING; MOTION PLATFORMS; SHIP DECK; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM; VTOL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; OCEAN CURRENTS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DECKS (SHIP);

EID: 84892782769     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-013-9926-3     Document Type: Article

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