A modular software infrastructure for distributed control of collaborating UAVs

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference 2006

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages 3248-3256

  Ryan, Allison ^a,b   Xiao, Xiao ^a,b   Rathinam, Sivakumar ^a   Tisdale, John ^a,b   Zennaro, Marco ^a,b   Caveney, Derek ^a,b   Sengupta, Raja ^a,c   Karl Hedrick, J ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles   (United States)

^c Civil and Environmental Engineering and Land   (United States)

^d Mechanical Engineering

^e AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE PLATFORM; HUMAN RISK; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER VISION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MAPPING; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845762355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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