Unmanned air/ground vehicles heterogeneous cooperative techniques: Current status and prospects

Science China Technological Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1349-1355

  Duan, Haibin ^a   Liu, Senqi ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous cooperation; Unmanned air vehicle (UAV); Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)

Indexed keywords

GROUND VEHICLES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

APPLICATION FIELDS; COOPERATIVE TECHNIQUES; FORMATION STABILITY; HETEROGENEOUS COOPERATION; INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; SEARCH AND RESCUE TASKS; UNMANNED AIR VEHICLES; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953612880     PISSN: 16747321     EISSN: 18691900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11431-010-0122-4     Document Type: Article

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