Fly-by-agent: Controlling a pool of UAVs via a multi-agent system

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-237

  Baxter, Jeremy W ^a   Horn, Graham S ^a   Leivers, Daniel P ^a  

^a QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multi agent system; Teamwork; Uninhabited air vehicles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

TEST FLIGHTS; UNINHABITED AIR VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 40249110544     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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