Assignment of heterogeneous tasks to a set of heterogeneous unmanned aerial vehicles

AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rasmussen, Steven J ^a   Kingston, Derek B ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMIC FRAMEWORK; ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; COMMUNICATION RELAYS; COOPERATIVE TEAMS; FUTURE MISSION; MILITARY MISSIONS; SPECIFIC TASKS; STATIC OBSTACLES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 70449684172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2008-6316     Document Type: Conference Paper

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