An exhaustive swarming search strategy based on distributed pheromone maps

Collection of Technical Papers - 2007 AIAA InfoTech at Aerospace Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1130-1145

  Erignac, Charles A ^a,b  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GRADIENT METHODS; ROBUST CONTROL; SCALABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DISTRIBUTED PHEROMONE MAPS; EXHAUSTIVE SWARMING SEARCH STRATEGY; SWARMING AGENTS; WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 35649009898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2007-2822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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