Opportunities and challenges with autonomous micro aerial vehicles

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 100, Issue , 2017, Pages 41-58

  Kumar, Vijay ^a   Michael, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

FIXED BASE; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MICRO UAVS; MULTISTORY BUILDING; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES; THIRD PHASE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT;

MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV);

EID: 84984832816     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29363-9_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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