Cooperative exploration of level surfaces of three dimensional scalar fields

Automatica

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2044-2051

  Wu, Wencen ^a   Zhang, Fumin ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative exploration; Cooperative filtering; Curvature estimation

Indexed keywords

3-D SCALAR; 3D GEOMETRY; COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION; COOPERATIVE FILTERING; CURVATURE ESTIMATION; EXPLORATION TASKS; FIELD VALUES; MOBILE SENSING AGENTS; PRINCIPAL CURVATURE; PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SCALAR FIELDS; SENSOR READINGS; SIMULATION RESULT; STEERING CONTROL LAW; SUFFICIENT AND NECESSARY CONDITION;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MOBILE AGENTS;

EID: 80052023467     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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