A decentralized architecture for active sensor networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 1097-1102

  Makarenko, Alexei ^a   Brooks, Alex ^a   Williams, Stefan ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^a   Grocholsky, Ben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; USER INTERFACES;

ACTIVE SENSOR NETWORKS (ASN); AUTONOMOUS SENSING PLATFORMS; INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042632059     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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