Decentralized perimeter surveillance using a team of UAVs

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1394-1404

  Kingston, Derek ^a   Beard, Randal W ^b   Holt, Ryan S ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Coordination variables; Decentralized algorithms; Perimeter surveillance; Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)

Indexed keywords

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; COORDINATION VARIABLES; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; PERIMETER SURVEILLANCE; SMALL UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS);

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 58249132950     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.2007935     Document Type: Article

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