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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Control of a Quadrotor Helicopter using Visual Feedback
We present control methods for an autonomous four-rotor helicopter, called a quadrotor, using visual feedback as the primary sensor. The vision system uses a ground camera to esti...
Erdinç Altug, James P. Ostrowski, Robert E....
ICRA
2003
IEEE
100views Robotics» more  ICRA 2003»
13 years 9 months ago
Quadrotor control using dual camera visual feedback
— In this paper, a vision-based stabilization and output tracking control method for a four-rotor helicopter has been proposed. A novel 2 camera method has been described for est...
Erdinç Altug, James P. Ostrowski, Camillo J...
ICRA
2010
IEEE
134views Robotics» more  ICRA 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Design of guaranteed safe maneuvers using reachable sets: Autonomous quadrotor aerobatics in theory and practice
— For many applications, the control of a complex nonlinear system can be made easier by modeling the system as a collection of simplified hybrid modes, each representing a part...
Jeremy H. Gillula, Haomiao Huang, Michael P. Vitus...
SAC
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
I4Copter: an adaptable and modular quadrotor platform
Quadrotor helicopters are micro air vehicles with vertical take-off and landing capabilities controlled by varying the rotation speed of four fixed pitch propellers. Due to their...
Peter Ulbrich, Rüdiger Kapitza, Christian Har...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
173views Robotics» more  ICRA 2009»
13 years 11 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...