Robotic simulation of gases for a surveillance task

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2905-2910

  Kerr, Wesley ^a   Spears, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage; Robotics; Surveillance; Swarms

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; ROBOTICS; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

COVERAGE; EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON; LOCAL SENSORS; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; ROBOTIC SIMULATION; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SURVEILLANCE TASK; SWARMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 70450215456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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