Autonomous multirover system for complex planetary surface retrieval operations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3209, Issue , 1997, Pages 220-229

  Huntsberger, Terry ^a  

^a University of South Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior based control; Cooperative rovers; Neural networks; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATIONS; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; BEHAVIOR-BASED CONTROL; COOPERATIVE ROVERS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; LOW BANDWIDTHS; PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS; PLANETARY SURFACES; RECOVERY MISSIONS; ROVER SYSTEMS; WAVELETS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 57649118572     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.287641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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