The coverage problem for loitering Dubins vehicles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1398-1403

  Savla, Ketan ^a   Bullo, Francesco ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; CURVE FITTING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

FACILITY LOCATION PROBLEM; NONHOLONOMIC VEHICLES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 62749089321     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2007.4435017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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