Combining networks of drifting profiling floats and gliders for adaptive sampling of the Ocean

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 157-162

  Alvarez, Alberto ^a   Garau, Bartolome ^a   Caiti, Andrea ^b  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INTERPOLATION; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS;

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; COMBINING NETWORKS; DRIFTING PROFILING FLOATS; PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS;

GLIDERS;

EID: 36348953937     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363780     Document Type: Conference Paper

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