Cooperative minimum time surveillance with multiple ground vehicles

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2679-2691

  Anisi, David A ^a   Ógren, Petter ^b   Hu, Xiaoming ^c  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Minimum time UGV surveillance problem (MTUSP); unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)

Indexed keywords

FIELD OF VIEWS; MINIMUM TIME; MINIMUM TIME PROBLEMS; MULTIPLE GROUNDS; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; WAYPOINTS;

GROUND VEHICLES; MONITORING; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 78649993176     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2010.2047438     Document Type: Article

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