Adaptive teams of autonomous aerial and ground Robots for situational awareness

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 991-1014

  Hsieh, M Ani ^a   Cowley, Anthony ^a   Keller, James E ^a   Chaimowicz, Luiz ^a   Grocholsky, Ben ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Camillo J ^a   Endo, Yoichiro ^b   Arkin, Ronald C ^b   Jung, Boyoon ^c   Wolf, Denis F ^c   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^c   MacKenzie, Douglas C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Mobile Intelligence Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; MAPPING; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SURVEILLANCE RADAR;

MULTIROBOT DEPLOYMENT; RADIO-SIGNAL STRENGTHS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 37349054385     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20222     Document Type: Article

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