A survey of animal foraging for directed, persistent search by rescue robotics

9th IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 314-320

  Suarez, Jesus ^a   Murphy, Robin ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal Behavior; Intelligent Robots; Mobile Robots; Robot Motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIXED TIME; PERSISTENT SEARCHES; RESCUE ROBOTICS; ROBOT MOTION; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SEARCH STRATEGIES; SEARCH TIME; SENSING RANGES; SENSORY INFORMATION; THEORETICAL MODELS; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MODELS; ROBOTICS; SURVEYS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84855835830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2011.6106744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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