Maintaining connectivity in UAV swarm sensing

2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1771-1776

  Teacy, W T Luke ^a   Nie, Jing ^a   McClean, Sally ^a   Parr, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIO WAVES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AERIAL VEHICLE; COORDINATION ALGORITHMS; FLIGHT COORDINATION; FLIGHT PLANNING; INFORMATION GAIN; LEARNING PROCEDURES; ONLINE LEARNING; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; STATE OF THE ART; WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTIVITY;

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EID: 79951907617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2010.5700246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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