Stereo vision and laser odometry for autonomous helicopters in GPS-denied indoor environments

This paper presents our solution for enabling a quadrotor helicopter to autonomously navigate unstructured and unknown indoor environments. We compare two sensor suites, specifically a laser rangefinder and a stereo camera. Laser and camera sensors are both well-suited for recovering the helicopter&...

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Main Authors: Prentice, Samuel James, He, Ruijie, Bachrach, Abraham Galton, Achtelik, Markus Wilhelm, Roy, Nicholas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52660
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4959-7368
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8293-0492