Distributed robotics approach to chemical plume tracing

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 4034-4039

  Zarzhitsky, Dimitri ^a   Spears, Diana F ^a   Spears, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Plume tracing; Sensor networks; Swarms

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

AUTONOMOUS SWARMS; CHEMICAL PLUME TRACING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTICS; LOCAL INFORMATION; PLUME TRACING; SWARMS;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

EID: 79958015494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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