A fluid dynamic based coordination of a wireless sensor network of unmanned aerial vehicles: 3-D simulation and wireless communication characterization

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 722-736

  Shaw, Apratim ^a   Mohseni, Kamran ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi agent systems; smoothed particle hydrodynamics; unmanned aerial vehicles; wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

2.4 GHZ-BAND; 3-D SPACE; 3D SIMULATIONS; AIR-TO-GROUND COMMUNICATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONTROL ALGORITHMS; CONTROL MECHANISM; COUNTER ROTATING; DECENTRALIZED CONTROLLER; DYNAMIC ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; GROUND STATIONS; IEEE 802.15.4; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE METHOD; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; PATH FOLLOWING; SMOOTHED PARTICLE HYDRODYNAMICS; TURNING RADIUS; VARIABLE KERNELS; VECTOR FIELDS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; ZIG-BEE;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VEHICLES; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 79251601650     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2064294     Document Type: Article

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