A survey of commercial & open source unmanned vehicle simulators

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 852-857

  Craighead, Jeff ^a   Murphy, Robin ^a   Burke, Jenny ^a   Goldiez, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME ENGINES; SUBSURFACE VEHICLES; UNMANNED SURFACES; UNMANNED VEHICLE SIMULATORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINES; GROUND VEHICLES; VISUALIZATION;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 36348932200     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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