Implementation of a decentralised sensing network aboard multiple UAVs

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 253-284

  Nettleton, Eric ^a   Ridley, Matthew ^a   Sukkarieh, Salah ^a   Göktoğan, Ali ^a   Durrant Whyte, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decentralised data fusion; Mapping; Sensor network; Tracking; UAV; Wireless

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MAPS; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNMANNED VEHICLES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED DATA FUSION; TRACKING; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES (UAV); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 3543069927     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TELS.0000029042.75697.f0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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