UAV formation control: Theory and application

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue , 2008, Pages 15-33

  Anderson, Brian D O ^a   Fidan, Bariş ^a   Yu, Changbin ^a   Van Der Walle, Dirk ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Formation control; Persistent formation; Rigid formation; Surveillance; UAV

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GRAPH THEORY; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MILITARY VEHICLES; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL LAW; EQUILATERAL TRIANGLES; FORMATION CONTROL; PERSISTENT FORMATION; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; RIGID FORMATIONS; SHAPE-PRESERVING PROPERTY; SURVEILLANCE; UNMANNED AIRBORNE VEHICLES; VEHICLE FORMATIONS;

LINEAR ALGEBRA;

EID: 36849013973     PISSN: 01708643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84800-155-8_2     Document Type: Article

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