SensorFlock: An airborne wireless sensor network of micro-air vehicles

SenSys'07 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 117-129

  Allred, Jude ^a   Hasan, Ahmad Bilal ^a   Panichsakul, Saroch ^a   Pisano, William ^a   Gray, Peter ^a   Huang, Jyh ^a   Han, Richard ^a   Lawrence, Dale ^a   Mohseni, Kamran ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Deployments; MAVs; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AIR-TO-GROUND COMMUNICATIONS; DEPLOYMENTS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL SOFTWARE; FLIGHT TEST; HIGH GRANULARITY; LAUNCH SYSTEM; LOW COSTS; MAVS; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; PLUME BEHAVIOR; RF BEHAVIOR; STORM DYNAMICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKING; WIRELESS SENSOR;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MICRO AIR VEHICLE (MAV); SENSORS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 79959894825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1322263.1322275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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