Adaptive on-line planning of environmental sampling missions with a team of cooperating autonomous underwater vehicles

International Journal of Control

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1151-1168

  Caiti, A ^a   Munaf, A ^a   Viviani, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FUZZY RULES; OCEANOGRAPHY; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAMPLING;

ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS; EQUALLY SPACED LOCATIONS; NON-ADAPTIVE PLANNERS; OCEANOGRAPHIC MISSIONS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 34547965651     PISSN: 00207179     EISSN: 13665820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207170701230973     Document Type: Article

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