Cooperative tracking of moving targets by a team of autonomous UAVS

AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wheeler, Matt ^a   Schrick, Brad ^a   Whitacre, William ^b   Campbell, Mark ^b   Rysdyk, Rolf ^c   Wise, Richard ^c  

^a Insitu Group   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(E ,3E) PROCESS; (U ,V) OPERATOR; AUTONOMOUS TRACKING; BUILDING BLOCKS; CENTRALIZED DATABASE; COOPERATIVE TRACKING; DIGITAL AVIONICS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS; GEO-LOCATION; GUIDANCE ALGORITHMS; INSITU GROUP (CO); MOVING TARGETS; OPTIMAL PATHS; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSES; REAL TIME; VELOCITY VECTORS;

AVIONICS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; ESTIMATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TARGET TRACKING; TARGETS; TRACKING (POSITION); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 77957762391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DASC.2006.313769     Document Type: Conference Paper

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