Decentralised optimal control for reconnaissance

Conference Proceedings of 2007 Information, Decision and Control, IDC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 314-319

  Mathews, George M ^a,b   Durrant Whyte, Hugh F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS; SCALABLE COOPERATIVE CONTROL ALGORITHMS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548860357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IDC.2007.374569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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