RoboLeader for Reconnaissance by a team of robotic vehicles

2010 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems, CTS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 522-530

  Snyder, Mark G ^a   Qu, Zhihua ^a   Chen, Jessie Y C ^b   Barnes, Michael J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous systems; Cooperative controls; Path planning; Robotic vehicles; Urban terrain

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; PATH-PLANNING; ROBOTIC VEHICLES; URBAN TERRAIN;

LANDFORMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

MILITARY VEHICLES;

EID: 77954466005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CTS.2010.5478467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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