Persistent surveillance using multiple unmanned air vehicles

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Nigam, Nikhil ^a   Kroo, Ilan ^a  

^a 496 Lomita Mall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT DYNAMICS; AUCTION ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS SENSING; CONTROL POLICIES; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; HEURISTIC CONTROL; MULTIPLE UAVS; NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS; OPTIMAL ASSIGNMENT; PARALLEL EXPLORATION; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENTS; SUB-REGIONS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DYNAMICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 49349103269     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2008.4526242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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