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ICRA
2002
IEEE
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Flying Robots: Modeling, Control and Decision Making
This paper presents a flight rnanageiiient system (FhIS) iinpleniented as on-board intelligence for rotorcraft-based unmanned aerial vehicles (RUAVs), in order to gradually ilen a...
H. Jin Kim, David Hyunchul Shim, Shankar Sastry
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Vision Guided Landing of an Autonomous Helicopter in Hazardous Terrain
– Future robotic space missions will employ a precision soft-landing capability that will enable exploration of previously inaccessible sites that have strong scientific signific...
Andrew Edie Johnson, James F. Montgomery, Larry Ma...
ICRA
2005
IEEE
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Obstacle Detection for Small Autonomous Aircraft Using Sky Segmentation
– A vision-based obstacle detection system for small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is presented. Obstacles are detected by segmenting the image into sky and non-sky regions and...
Tim G. McGee, Raja Sengupta, J. Karl Hedrick
HRI
2006
ACM
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A video game-based framework for analyzing human-robot interaction: characterizing interface design in real-time interactive mul
There is growing interest in mining the world of video games to find inspiration for human-robot interaction (HRI) design. This paper segments video game interaction into domain-i...
Justin Richer, Jill L. Drury
ICRA
2008
IEEE
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An almost communication-less approach to task allocation for multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
— In this paper, we present a scalable, decentralized task allocation algorithm for a group of unknown number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), which are equipped with GPS rece...
Peng Cheng, Vijay Kumar
CDC
2008
IEEE
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Prediction of vertical motions for landing operations of UAVs
— This paper outlines a novel and feasible procedure to predict vertical motions for safe landing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during maritime operations. In the presence o...
Xilin Yang, Hemanshu Roy Pota, Matthew Garratt, Va...
IROS
2009
IEEE
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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...