Title :
Autonomous landing by computer vision: an application of path following in SE(3)
Author :
Frezza, Ruggero ; Altafini, Claudio
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Inf., Padova Univ., Italy
Abstract :
We describe a predictive control law for an aircraft autonomous approach to landing based on active vision. The path following problem and the control of the pan-tilt unit that holds the on-board camera are both formulated geometrically in the frameworks of SE(3) and on the sphere S2
Keywords :
Lie groups; active vision; aircraft landing guidance; matrix algebra; position control; predictive control; SE(3); autonomous landing; pan-tilt unit; path following; predictive control law; Active contours; Aerospace control; Aircraft; Application software; Automatic control; Biological system modeling; Cameras; Computer vision; Optimal control; Predictive control;
Conference_Titel :
Decision and Control, 2000. Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6638-7
DOI :
10.1109/CDC.2000.914183
