HARVEST: A framework and co-simulation environment for analyzing unmanned aerial vehicle swarms

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Augeri, Christopher J ^a   Morris, Kevin M ^b   Mullins, Barry E ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Scott AFB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

AUTONOMOUS REFUELING; COOPERATIVE SWARM CAPABILITIES; EXTERNAL SYSTEM DEFINITION (ESD); SENSOR SWARMS; UNMANNED VEHICLE SWARM;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35048816989     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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