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ISER
2000
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Height Estimation for an Autonomous Helicopter
: Height is a critical variable for helicopter hover control. In this paper we discuss, and present experimental results for, two different height sensing techniques: ultrasonic an...
Peter I. Corke, Pavan Sikka, Jonathan M. Roberts
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Detection of Sensor Faults in Autonomous Helicopters
- This paper presents a sensor fault detection and diagnosis system for autonomous helicopters. The system has been tested with the MARVIN autonomous helicopter. Fault detection is...
Guillermo Heredia, Aníbal Ollero, Rajesh Ma...
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....
JFR
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Visual servoing of an autonomous helicopter in urban areas using feature tracking
We present the design and implementation of a vision-based feature tracking system for an autonomous helicopter. Visual sensing is used for estimating the position and velocity of...
Luis Mejías, Srikanth Saripalli, Pascual Ca...
ISER
2004
Springer
134views Robotics» more  ISER 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
Autonomous Landing of an Unmanned Helicopter based on Vision and Inertial Sensing
In this paper, we propose an autonomous precision landing method for an unmanned helicopter based on an on-board visual navigation system consisting of a single pan-tilting camera,...
Torsten Merz, Simone Duranti, Gianpaolo Conte