A comparison of scale estimation schemes for a quadrotor UAV based on optical flow and IMU measurements

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5193-5200

  Grabe, Volker ^a,b   Bulthoff, Heinrich H ^a,c   Giordano, Paolo Robuffo ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

^d CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LINEAR VELOCITY; NON-LINEAR OBSERVER; ON-BOARD SENSORS; SCALE ESTIMATION;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OPTICAL FLOWS; SENSORS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 84893734230     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6697107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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