Hierarchical search strategy for a team of autonomous vehicles

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 567-572

  Silva, Jorge ^a   Speranzon, Alberto ^b   de Sousa, João Borges ^c   Johansson, Karl Henrik ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs); Discrete Event Systems; Multi Robot Systems; Simplex Algorithm

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

COORDINATION STRATEGY; HIERARCHICAL SEARCH; MIDDLE LAYER; MULTI-VEHICLES; SIMPLEX ALGORITHM; THREE-LAYER; UPPER LAYER; WAY POINTS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES;

EID: 77953973131     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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