Analysis of bird formations

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 118-123

  Seiler, Pete ^a   Pant, Aniruddha ^a   Hedrick, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BIOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEM THEORY;

BIRDS FORMATION; COORDINATED CONTROL; FLIGHT FORMATION; ORNITHOLOGY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 0036990875     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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