Autonomous Flight Control of a Nano Quadrotor Helicopter in a GPS-Denied Environment Using On-Board Vision

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6392-6403

  Zhang, Xu ^a   Xian, Bin ^a   Zhao, Bo ^a   Zhang, Yao ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nano Quadrotor; Robust Control; UAV; Visual Control

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ALTITUDE CONTROL; COMPUTER VISION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HELICOPTERS; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBUST CONTROL; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS FLIGHT CONTROL; MICRO INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; NONLINEAR FLIGHT CONTROLLERS; QUAD ROTORS; QUADROTOR HELICOPTER; VISUAL CONTROL; VISUAL POSE MEASUREMENTS; VISUAL SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION AND MAPPINGS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 84941591748     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2420036     Document Type: Article

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