Control of UAV Swarms: What the bugs can teach us

2nd AIAA "Unmanned Unlimited" Conference and Workshop and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Gaudiano, Paolo ^a   Shargel, Benjamin ^a   Bonabeau, Eric ^a   Clough, Bruce T ^b  

^a ICOSYSTEM CORPORATION   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; CONTROL STRATEGIES; COORDINATED TEAMS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGY; LONG-TERM GOALS; QUANTITATIVE METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL INSECTS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

EID: 77958509657     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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