Scalability and optimalily in a multi-agent sensor planning system

Soft Computing with Industrial Applications - Proceedings of the Sixth Biannual World Automation Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 74-80

  Hodge, Lovell ^a   Kamel, Mohamed ^a   Bardon, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Camera; Intelligent Agent; Sensor Planning; Viewpoint Planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

INHERENTLY COMPLEX; SENSOR PLANNING; VIEWPOINT PLANNING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 32844467210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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