Long-endurance sensing and mapping using a hand-launchable solar-powered UAV

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 441-454

  Oettershagen, Philipp ^a   Stastny, Thomas ^a   Mantel, Thomas ^a   Melzer, Amir ^a   Rudin, Konrad ^a   Gohl, Pascal ^a   Agamennoni, Gabriel ^a   Alexis, Kostas ^a   Siegwart, Roland ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; FIXED WINGS; MAPPING; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DAYLIGHT OPERATIONS; FLIGHT ENDURANCE; HIGH BANDWIDTH COMMUNICATION; MAPPING APPLICATIONS; MULTI-CAMERA SENSING; ON-BOARD PROCESSING; PATH-PLANNING ALGORITHM; SEARCH-AND-RESCUE APPLICATIONS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84961284984     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27702-8_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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