Controlling a team of ground robots via an aerial robot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 965-970

  Michael, Nathan ^a   Fink, Jonathan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PLATFORMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

ABSTRACTING; CIVIL DEFENSE; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349137889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399589     Document Type: Conference Paper

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