Embedding health management into mission tasking for UAV teams

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5777-5783

  Valenti, Mario ^a   Bethke, Brett ^b   How, Jonathan P ^b   De Farias, Daniela Pucci ^b   Vian, John ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM (AS); COMPONENT FAILURES; DEGRADED SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; FUNCTIONAL RELIABILITY; HEALTH MANAGEMENT (HM); MISSION PLANNING; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI VEHICLES; SUB-SYSTEMS; TEST BEDS; VEHICLE OPERATIONS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MANAGEMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROCESS MONITORING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT;

EID: 46449117743     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282719     Document Type: Conference Paper

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