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HYBRID
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Path Planning and Flight Controller Scheduling for an Autonomous Helicopter
Abstract. In this article we investigate how to generate flight trajectories for an autonomous helicopter. The planning strategy that we propose reflects the controller architect...
Magnus Egerstedt, Tak-John Koo, Frank Hoffmann, Sh...
JIRS
2010
148views more  JIRS 2010»
13 years 3 days ago
Low-Cost Visual Tracking of a Landing Place and Hovering Flight Control with a Microcontroller
The growth of civil and military use has recently promoted the development of unmanned miniature aerial vehicles dedicated to surveillance tasks. These flying vehicles are often ca...
Karl Engelbert Wenzel, Paul Rosset, Andreas Zell
CVPR
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Moving Object Detection on a Runway Prior to Landing Using an Onboard Infrared Camera
Determining the status of a runway prior to landing is essential for any aircraft, whether manned or unmanned. In this paper, we present a method that can detect moving objects on...
Cheng-Hua Pai, Yuping Lin, Gérard G. Medion...
IROS
2009
IEEE
165views Robotics» more  IROS 2009»
13 years 12 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...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
140views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
13 years 11 months ago
Field Testing of the Mars Exploration Rovers Descent Image Motion Estimation System
– The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Descent Image Motion Estimation System (DIMES) is the first autonomous machine vision system used to safely land a robotics payload on another ...
Andrew Edie Johnson, Reg G. Willson, Jay Goguen, J...