Group health management of UAV teams with applications to persistent surveillance

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3145-3150

  Bethke, Brett ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a   Vian, John ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; SULFATE MINERALS; UNMANNED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

BORDER PATROL; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; FLIGHT TESTING; FUTURE MISSIONS; HEALTH MANAGEMENT; MILITARY SURVEILLANCE; MISSION PERFORMANCE; MISSION SYSTEMS; SEARCH-AND-RESCUE; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 52449093126     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2008.4586976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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