Artificial intelligence technologies for robot assisted urban search and rescue

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 109-124

  Blitch, John G ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INSPECTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROBOTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

MICRO BOT; ROBOTIC MICRO ROVER SYSTEMS; SEARCH ASSET ALLOCATION; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0029767181     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0957-4174(96)00038-3     Document Type: Article

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