Probabilistic motion planning of balloons in strong, uncertain wind fields

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1123-1129

  Wolf, Michael T ^a   Blackmore, Lars ^a   Kuwata, Yoshiaki ^a   Fathpour, Nanaz ^a   Elfes, Alberto ^a   Newman, Claire ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXISTING METHOD; EXPECTED TIME; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; PROBABILISTIC SOLUTION; VECTOR FIELDS; WIND FIELD; WIND MODELS;

ATMOSPHERICS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOTION PLANNING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955815608     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509135     Document Type: Conference Paper

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