Dynamic autonomous agent placement for target tracking based on target motion models

2005 IEEE Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC2005 - Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 383-388

  Hegazy, Tamir ^a   Vachtsevanos, George ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; NAVIGATING TARGETS; RESCUE OPERATIONS; TARGET LOCATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; TARGETS; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33745176193     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNSC.2005.1461220     Document Type: Conference Paper

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