Organization and reorganization of autonomous oceanographic sampling networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 2060-2067

  Turner, Roy M ^a   Turner, Elise H ^a  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

Instruments; Intelligent robots; Mobile robots; Modems; Multirobot systems; Oceans; Remotely operated vehicles; Sampling methods; Underwater communication; Underwater vehicles

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODEMS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSORS;

MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; OCEANS; SAMPLING METHOD; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT;

AUTONOMOUS OCEANOGRAPHIC SAMPLING NETWORKS (AOSN); META LEVEL ORGANIZATION (MLO); TASK LEVEL ORGANIZATION (TLO);

EID: 0031644505     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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