BEES: Exploring Mars with bioinspired technologies

Computer

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 38-47

  Thakoor, Sarita ^a   Morookian, John Michael ^a   Chahl, Javaan ^b   Hine, Butler ^c   Zornetzer, Steve ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; BIOCONTROL; BIOSENSORS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DELTA WING AIRCRAFT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL FLOWS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

BIOINSPIRED ENGINEERING; BIOINSPIRED VISUAL NAVIGATION SENSORS; CONTROL ARCHITECTURE; EXPLORATION SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL; IMAGE INTERPOLARION ALGORITHM; OPTICAL FLOW SENSING; OPTICAL MOUSE CHIP; ROBOTIC AIRCRAFT; TERRAIN MATCHING LOCALIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 4644336885     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2004.119     Document Type: Article

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