Scale-aware navigation of a low-cost quadrocopter with a monocular camera

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1646-1656

  Engel, Jakob ^a   Sturm, Jürgen ^a   Cremers, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AR.Drone; Monocular SLAM; Quadrocopter; Scale estimation; Visual navigation; Visual SLAM

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CAMERAS; COSTS; DATA FUSION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; KALMAN FILTERS; NAVIGATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SLAM ROBOTICS; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS; VISION;

AR.DRONE; MONOCULAR SLAM; QUADROCOPTER; SCALE ESTIMATION; VISUAL NAVIGATION; VISUAL SLAM;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84906778740     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2014.03.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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