Convoy protection using multiple unmanned aerial vehicles: Organization and coordination

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3524-3529

  Spry, Stephen C ^a   Girard, Anouck R ^b   Hedrick, J Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative Systems; Mobile Robots; Surveillance; Tracking

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; SURVEILLANCE; TRACKING;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GROUND VEHICLES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION);

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 23944527056     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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