Multi-vehicle pursuit-evasion: An agent-based framework

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2707-2713

  Fregene, Kingsley ^a   Kennedy, Diane ^b   Wang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous unmanned vehicles; Intelligent agents; Pursuit evasion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

HYBRID CONTROL SYSTEM; HYBRID INTELLIGENT CONTROL AGENT; MULTIPLE COORDINATED VEHICLE TEAM;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 0344445372     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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