A delay-tolerant potential-field-based network implementation of an integrated navigation system

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 769-783

  Gupta, Rachana Ashok ^a   Masoud, Ahmad A ^a   Chow, Mo Yuen ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Harmonic potential field (HPF); Intelligent space (iSpace); Network based integrated navigation system

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION MEDIUM; DELAY TOLERANT; GOAL-ORIENTED; HARMONIC POTENTIAL FIELDS; HOST STRUCTURE; INTEGRATED NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT SPACE (ISPACE); NETWORK-BASED; NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE COMPUTERS; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE INTERFACES; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROLLERS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); LAUNCHING; NAVIGATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 75449094444     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2026764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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