Programming micro-aerial vehicle swarms with karma

SenSys 2011 - Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 121-134

  Dantu, Karthik ^a   Kate, Bryan ^a   Waterman, Jason ^a   Bailis, Peter ^b   Welsh, Matt ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

micro aerial vehicle; mobile sensor network; swarm

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HIGH-DENSITY; IN-FIELD; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MOBILE SENSING; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; POWER SOURCES; SWARM; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 83455223688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2070942.2070956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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