A mode-switching path planner for UAV-assisted search and rescue

Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the European Control Conference, CDC-ECC '05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1471-1476

  Ryan, Allison ^a   Hedrick, J Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOPILOT SYSTEMS; OSCILLATORY PATHS; SENSOR COVERAGE; TRACKING ERROR CONVERGENCE;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE AUTOMATA; HELICOPTERS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 33847210731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2005.1582366     Document Type: Conference Paper

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