Target tracking with distributed robotic macrosensors

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Shucker, Brian ^a   Bennett, John K ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTIC MACROSENSOR (DRM); VIRTUAL SPRING;

ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSORS;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 33847339366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1606061     Document Type: Conference Paper

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