Mission specification and control for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles for indoor target discovery and tracking

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7694, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ulam, Patrick D ^a   Kira, Zsolt ^a   Arkin, Ronald C ^a   Collins, Thomas R ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor target tracking; Microautonomous systems; Mission specification

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS ROTORCRAFTS; GEORGIA; GROUND BASED; INDOOR TARGET TRACKING; INDOOR/OUTDOOR; INTELLIGENCE GATHERING; MICROAUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; MISSION EXECUTION; ROBOTIC HARDWARE; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; SPECIFICATION FRAMEWORKS; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES;

GROUND VEHICLES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTEROPERABILITY; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SPECIFICATIONS; TARGETS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 77953772258     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.849842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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