Coordinated search for a lost target in a Bayesian world

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 979-1000

  Bourgault, Frédéric ^a   Göktoǧan, Ali ^a   Furukawa, Tomonari ^b   Durrant Whyte, Hugh F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Decentralized control; Multi robot search; Sensor network; Unmanned air vehicles

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; ROBOTS; SIMULATORS;

ACTIVE SENSING; DECENTRALIZATION CONTROL; MULTI-ROBOT SEARCH; SENSOR NETWORKS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES;

SENSORS;

EID: 11144258921     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568553042674707     Document Type: Conference Paper

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