Evidence based navigation in swarms

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 5078-5083

  Dewasurendra, Duminda A ^a   Bauer, Peter H ^a   Scheutz, Matthias ^a   Premaratne, Kamal ^b  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROSENSORS; MOBILE DEVICES; MODAL ANALYSIS;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER (DS) EVIDENCE THEORY; EVENT SIGNATURE;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 36749001338     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2006.377459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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