Autonomous transportation and deployment with aerial robots for search and rescue missions

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 914-931

  Bernard, Markus ^a   Kondak, Konstantin ^b   Maza, Ivan ^c   Ollero, Anibal ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTS; AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES; AUTONOMOUS COOPERATION; COMPLETE SYSTEM; COOPERATIVE SENSING; CRITICAL ISSUES; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; MODELING AND CONTROL; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SLUNG LOAD; SYSTEM SUPPORTS; WIND GUST;

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; HELICOPTERS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 80054074400     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.20401     Document Type: Article

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