Experiments in the control and application of Automated Surface Vessel fleets

OCEANS'11 - MTS/IEEE Kona, Program Book

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kitts, Christopher ^a   Mahacek, Paul ^a   Adamek, Thomas ^a   Mas, Ignacio ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

automated surface vessel; autonomous robots; formation control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTS; SAMPLING;

AUTOMATED SURFACE VESSELS; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING; FORMATION CONTROL; GRADIENT BASED; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NICHE APPLICATIONS; TEST APPLICATIONS; UNDERWATER ASSETS;

MILITARY APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84855774474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/oceans.2011.6106976     Document Type: Conference Paper

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