Real-time planning for multiple autonomous vehicles in dynamic uncertain environments

Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information and Communication

Volumn , Issue DEC., 2004, Pages 580-604

  Pongpunwattana, Anawat ^a,b   Rysdyk, Rolf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Aeronautics and Astronautics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRAJECTORIES; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

DYNAMIC UNCERTAIN ENVIRONMENTS; MULTIPLE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; REAL-TIME PLANNING; TASK STATES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 18444374696     PISSN: 15429423     EISSN: 15429423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.12919     Document Type: Article

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