Autonomous cooperative geo-location and coordinated tracking of moving targets

Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1479-1488

  Wheeler, Matt ^a   Wise, Richard ^b   Rysdyk, Rolf ^b   Whitacre, William ^c,d   Campbell, Mark ^c,d  

^a Insitu Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^d School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GROUND VEHICLES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPACE RESEARCH;

AUTONOMOUS GEOLOCATION; GROUND TARGETS; MOVING TARGET TRACKING;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 35648982931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-2852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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