Control of ensembles of aerial robots

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 99, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1587-1602

  Michael, Nathan ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial robotics; multirobot systems; robot control

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; ANTENNAS; CONTROLLERS; ROBOTS;

ABSTRACT SPACE; AERIAL ROBOTICS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; LOW DIMENSIONAL; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SPACES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; ROBOT CONTROLLER; ROBOT CONTROLS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80052036922     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2157275     Document Type: Conference Paper

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