Autonomous UAV surveillance in complex urban environments

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT 2009

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 82-85

  Semsch, Eduard ^a   Jakob, Michal ^a   Pavlíček, Dušan ^a   Pěchouček, Michal ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART GALLERY PROBLEM; AUTONOMOUS UAV; FLIGHT ALTITUDES; HIGH FIDELITY; MOTION CONSTRAINTS; ONBOARD CAMERA; SENSING CONSTRAINTS; SIMULATION TEST BEDS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOTION PLANNING; TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM; URBAN PLANNING;

MONITORING;

EID: 84856932693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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