Navigation of unmanned marine vehicles in accordance with the rules of the road

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 3581-3587

  Benjamin, Michael R ^a,b   Curcio, Joseph A ^c   Leonard, John J ^c   Newman, Paul M ^d  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERVAL PROGRAMMING; MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; UNMANNED MARINE VEHICLES;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; OCEAN STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 33845637806     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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