Onboard hover control of a quadrotor using template matching and optic flow

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition, IPCV 2013

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 833-839

  Li, Ping ^a   Garratt, Matthew ^a   Lambert, Andrew ^a   Pickering, Mark ^a   Mitchell, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Long term drift; Micro aerial vehicle; Snapshot; Visual hover control

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; COMPUTER VISION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL FLOWS; TEMPLATE MATCHING; VISUAL SERVOING; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

CONTROLLER PARAMETER; HOVER CONTROLS; IMAGE MOTION; LONG TERM DRIFT; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; QUAD ROTORS; REFERENCE IMAGE; SNAPSHOT;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 84964544138     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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