Autonomous UAV path planning and estimation: An online path planning framework for cooperative search and localization

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 35-42

  Tisdale, John ^a,b   Kim, Zu Whan ^a   Hedrick, J Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information based control; Path planning; Unmanned vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; AUTONOMOUS SENSING; AUTONOMOUS UAV; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COOPERATIVE SEARCH; COOPERATIVE SENSING; DESIGN STRATEGIES; EFFICIENT METHOD; INFORMATION-BASED CONTROL; ON-LINE PATH PLANNING; PATH PLANNING; SENSOR MODEL; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; TRACKING OPERATIONS;

INFORMATION THEORY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 67649576966     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2009.932529     Document Type: Article

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