Monocular Snapshot-based Sensing and Control of Hover, Takeoff, and Landing for a Low-cost Quadrotor

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 984-1003

  Li, Ping ^a   Garratt, Matthew ^a   Lambert, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; COSTS; TAKEOFF;

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; CLOSED-LOOP PERFORMANCE; EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES; FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS; ILLUMINATION CHANGES; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; SNAPSHOT ALGORITHMS;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 84940904049     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21574     Document Type: Article

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