Online optimal obstacle avoidance for rotary-wing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles

This thesis presents an integrated framework for online obstacle avoidance of rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which can provide UAVs an obstacle field navigation capability in a partially or completely unknown obstacle-rich environment. The framework is composed of a LIDAR interface, a...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kang, Keeryun
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2012
Subjects:
UAV
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/44820