Synchronous and asynchronous communication effects on the cooperative control of uninhabited aerial vehicles

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 3166-3174

  Mitchell, Jason W ^a   Redding, Joshua D ^b   Rasmussen, Steven J ^c   Chandler, Phillip R ^d  

^a Emergent Space Technologies Inc   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

AFRL VA MultiUAV; Asynchronous; Communication delay; Cooperative control; Synchronous; Uninhabited aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AFRL/VA; ASYNCHRONOUS; COMMUNICATION DELAY; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; MULTI UAV; SYNCHRONOUS; UNINHABITED AERIAL VEHICLES;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 19944387951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-5353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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