Executive decision support: Single-agent control of multiple UAVs

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-81

  Ding, Xu Chu ^a,c   Powers, Matthew ^b   Egerstedt, Magnus ^c   Young, Shih Yih ^d   Balch, Tucker ^b  

^a Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ROCKWELL COLLINS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance measurement; Graphical user interfaces; Humans; Lead; Robots; Switches; Unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MODE; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; CONTROL MODES; DECISION SUPPORTS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; HUMANS; MULTIAGENT NETWORKS; MULTIPLE UAVS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL SWITCHING; SELECTION MECHANISM; SINGLE-AGENT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; VEHICLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 67649592493     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2009.932526     Document Type: Article

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