Cooperative Real-Time Search and Task Allocation in UAV Teams

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 7-12

  Jin, Yan ^a   Minai, Ali A ^a   Polycarpou, Marios M ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; VECTORS;

REAL-TIME SEARCH; TASK ALLOCATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 1542269602     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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