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CVIU
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
An optical navigation sensor for micro aerial vehicles
This paper describes a catadioptric microsensor for multidirectional imaging and 3D egomotion computation. Inspired by the wide viewing angle of insects’ compound eyes, we show ...
Christel-Loic Tisse, Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte, R. And...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
143views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
MAV navigation through indoor corridors using optical flow
— Safe navigation through corridors plays a major role in the autonomous use of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in indoor environments. In this paper, we present an approach for wal...
Simon Zingg, Davide Scaramuzza, Stephan Weiss, Rol...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
191views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Vision based MAV navigation in unknown and unstructured environments
— Within the research on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), the field on flight control and autonomous mission execution is one of the most active. A crucial point is the localizati...
Michael Blösch, Stephan Weiss, Davide Scaramu...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
173views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
Vision-based guidance and control of a hovering vehicle in unknown, GPS-denied environments
— This paper describes the system architecture and core algorithms for a quadrotor helicopter that uses vision data to navigate an unknown, indoor, GPS-denied environment. Withou...
Spencer Ahrens, Daniel Levine, Gregory Andrews, Jo...
ISCAS
2003
IEEE
122views Hardware» more  ISCAS 2003»
13 years 10 months ago
Toward a wireless optical communication link between two small unmanned aerial vehicles
A communication system between two autonomous micro air vehicles is proposed. Laser communication offers advantages in range, power, and bandwidth when line of sight is available....
Matt Last, Brian S. Leibowitz, Baris Cagdaser, Ana...