Distributed decision and control for cooperative UAVs Using Ad Hoc communication

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 511-516

  Ben Asher, Yosi ^a   Feldman, Sharoni ^a   Gurfil, Pini ^b   Feldman, Moran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Distributed algorithms; Distributed control; Mobile communication

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DISTRIBUTED FLIGHT COORDINATION; TARGET DISTANCES GRAPH; TASK ASSIGNMENT; WEIGHTED MATCHING;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 43749124246     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2007.906314     Document Type: Article

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