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IROS
2009
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Autonomous altitude estimation of a UAV using a single onboard camera
Abstract— Autonomous estimation of the altitude of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is extremely important when dealing with flight maneuvers like landing, steady flight, etc. ...
Anoop Cherian, Jonathan Andersh, Vassilios Morella...
MVA
2007
211views Computer Vision» more  MVA 2007»
13 years 6 months ago
Vision-based UAV Navigation in Mountain Area
Most vision-based UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) navigation algorithms extract manmade features such as buildings or roads, which are well structured in urban terrain, using the CC...
Jihwan Woo, Kilho Son, Teng Li, Gwan Sung Kim, In-...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
151views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Probabilistic target detection by camera-equipped UAVs
— This paper is motivated by the real world problem of search and rescue by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). We consider the problem of tracking a static target from a bird’sey...
Andrew Colquhoun Symington, Sonia Waharte, Simon J...
IROS
2009
IEEE
164views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Visual steering of UAV in unknown environments
— In this paper, we propose a novel approach for the visual navigation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). In contrast to most available methods, a single perspective camera is us...
Chunrong Yuan, Fabian Recktenwald, Hanspeter A. Ma...
ICRA
2007
IEEE
222views Robotics» more  ICRA 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Autonomous Vision-based Landing and Terrain Mapping Using an MPC-controlled Unmanned Rotorcraft
In this paper, we present a vision-based terrain mapping and analysis system, and a model predictive control (MPC)based flight control system, for autonomous landing of a helicop...
Todd Templeton, David Hyunchul Shim, Christopher G...