Collision avoidance and path planning of multiple UAVs using flyable paths in 3D

2010 15th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, MMAR 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 218-222

  Shanmugavel, Madhavan ^a   Tsourdos, Antonios ^a   White, Brian A ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; DELAUNAY TRIANGULATION; MINIMUM DISTANCE; MULTIPLE UAVS; PATH PLANNERS; PATH-PLANNING; ROUTE PLANNER; ROUTE PLANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPACE; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; WAYPOINTS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); MOTION PLANNING; PLANNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 78049452115     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMAR.2010.5587231     Document Type: Conference Paper

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