Mission-driven robotic intelligent sensor agents for territorial security

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-67

  Abielmona, Rami ^a   Petriu, Emil ^b   Harb, Moufid ^a   Wesolkowski, Slawo ^c  

^a Larus Technologies   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; GLOBAL MODELS; INTELLIGENT SENSOR AGENTS; INTERNATIONAL BORDER; PHYSICAL SENSORS;

FAULT TOLERANCE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SENSORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 78951475039     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2010.939580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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