Quad Rotorcraft Control Vision-Based Hovering and Navigation /

• Main Authors: García Carrillo, Luis Rodolfo (Author), Dzul López, Alejandro Enrique (Author), Lozano, Rogelio (Author), Pégard, Claude (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Advances in Industrial Control,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Image processing.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Automation.; Control.; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Robotics and Automation.

Quad-Rotor Control develops original control methods for the navigation and hovering flight of an autonomous mini-quad-rotor robotic helicopter. These methods use an imaging system and a combination of inertial and altitude sensors to localize and guide the movement of the unmanned aerial vehicle re...

Table of Contents:

• Modeling the Quad-Rotor Mini-Rotorcraft
• The Quad-Rotor Experimental Platform
• Hovering Flight Improvement
• Imaging Sensors for State Estimation
• Vision-Based Control of a Quad-Rotor UAV
• Combining Sensing Systems for the Quad-Rotor.