A competition to identify key challenges for unmanned aerial robots in near-earth environments

2005 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR '05, Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 309-315

  Green, William E ^a   Sevcik, Keith W ^a   Oh, Paul Y ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; EARTH (PLANET); PERSONNEL;

AERIAL ROBOT COMPETITION; BOMB-DETECTION; UNMANNED AERIAL ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 31344480573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICAR.2005.1507429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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