Monitoring environmental boundaries with a robotic sensor network

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2072-2077

  Susca, Sara ^a   Martínez, Sonia ^b   Bullo, Francesco ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATING POLYGONS; CONVEX BODIES; MOBILE SENSORS; ROBOTIC SENSOR NETWORKS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE AGENTS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; STABILITY CRITERIA;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 34047230525     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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