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Vision-based guidance and control of a hovering vehicle in unknown, GPS-denied environments

Ahrens et al., 2009

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14342099801578144317
Author
Ahrens S
Levine D
Andrews G
How J
Publication year
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2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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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. Without external sensing, an estimation system that relies only on integrating inertial data will have …
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    • G05—CONTROLLING; REGULATING
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    • G05D1/0011—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot associated with a remote control arrangement
    • G05D1/0044—Control of position, course or altitude of land, water, air, or space vehicles, e.g. automatic pilot associated with a remote control arrangement by providing the operator with a computer generated representation of the environment of the vehicle, e.g. virtual reality, maps
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    • G05D1/0287—Control of position or course in two dimensions specially adapted to land vehicles involving a plurality of land vehicles, e.g. fleet or convoy travelling
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