Decentralized control of unmanned aerial vehicle collaborative sensing missions

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4672-4677

  Ryan, Allison ^a   Tisdale, John ^a   Godwin, Mark ^a   Coatta, Daniel ^a   Nguyen, David ^a   Spry, Stephen ^a   Sengupta, Raja ^b   Hedrick, J Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; FOOD PROCESSING; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; ROBUST CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

DECENTRALIZED PLANNING; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LOCAL INFORMATION; MISSION EXECUTION; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; MULTI-STEP; REAL TIME; SINGLE-USER (SU); TASK ALLOCATION; UAV SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV)]; WIRELESS (WIFI) COMMUNICATION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 46449114318     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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