Multi-UAV decentralized task allocation with intermittent communications: The DTC algorithm

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5406-5411

  Dionne, Dany ^a   Rabbath, Camille A ^b  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATIONS; CO-OPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION CONSENSUS; LIGHTER THAN AIR (LTA); MULTI UAV; NON LINEAR MODELING; SIMULATION RESULTS; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMMUNICATION; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 46449133656     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2007.4282637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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