Evolutionary Algorithm Based Offline/Online Path Planner for UAV Navigation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 898-912

  Nikolos, Ioannis K ^a   Valavanis, Kimon P ^a   Tsourveloudis, Nikos C ^a   Kostaras, Anargyros N ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3 D path planning; B splines; Evolutionary algorithms; Navigation; UAV

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOTION PLANNING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SENSORS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ONLINE PLANNERS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 0345690133     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2002.804370     Document Type: Article

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