Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Controlling VTOL Airframe

This work presents a vision based system for navigation on a vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This is a monocular vision based, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system, which measures the position and orientation of the camera and builds a map of the environmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Michal Jama, Dale Schinstock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Control Science and Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/413074