Experimental implementation of robotic sequential nuclear search

2007 Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Cortez, R A ^a   Papageorgiou, X ^b   Tanner, H G ^a   Klimenko, A V ^c   Borozdin, K N ^c   Priedhorsky, W C ^c  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; QUANTUM OPTICS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

BI-DIRECTIONAL INTERACTION; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONTROL AND AUTOMATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MEASURING DEVICES; MODEL-DRIVEN; PHYSICAL PROCESSES; RADIATION SOURCES; ROBOTIC HARDWARE; SENSOR MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL CONFIDENCE;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 50249171778     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2007.4433797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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