Coordinated perception by teams of aerial and ground robots

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5609, Issue , 2004, Pages 181-191

  Grocholsky, Ben ^a   Swaminathan, Rahul ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Camillo ^a   Pappas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Active Sensing; Coordinated Control; Heterogeneous Robot Teams; Sensor Fusion

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INFORMATION THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ACTIVE SENSING; COORDINATED CONTROL; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT TEAMS; ROBOTIC SENSORS; SENSOR FUSION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 17644378063     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.571769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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