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

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 rapidly drifting position e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andrews, Gregory, Levine, Daniel S., Ahrens, Spencer, How, Jonathan P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Aerospace Controls Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53520
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8576-1930