Close target reconnaissance using autonomous UAV formations

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1729-1734

  Shames, Iman ^a   Fidan, Bariş ^a   Anderson, Brian D O ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; AUTONOMOUS UAV; AVOIDING OBSTACLE; CONSTANT SPEED; SUBTASKS; TARGET POSITION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 62949187480     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2008.4739440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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