Adaptive autonomous soaring of multiple UAVs using simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3656-3661

  Antal, Cathrine ^a   Granichin, Oleg ^a   Levi, Sergey ^a  

^a ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; NASA; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FLIGHT DURATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MULTI-AGENT APPROACH; SIMULTANEOUS PERTURBATION STOCHASTIC APPROXIMATION; THERMAL MODEL; UNINHABITED AIR VEHICLES; UNSTABLE BEHAVIOR; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79953133096     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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