Optic flow methods applied to unmanned air vehicles
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The paper discusses aspects of the potential usefulness and limitations of methods that could use the information in the optic flow of video that can be captured and processed aboard an unmanned air vehicle. Some preliminary theoretical and experimental results from analysis of video that has been recorded by the author using video telemetry equipment designed and constructed by the author and members of the UAV group at ECSE will be presented.
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