Simbeeotic: A simulator and testbed for micro-aerial vehicle swarm experiments

IPSN'12 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-60

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

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Micro aerial vehicle; Simulation; Swarm; Testbed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM DEVELOPMENT; HARD-WARE-IN-THE-LOOP; MICRO AERIAL VEHICLE; MOBILE SENSING; PROBLEM DOMAIN; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SWARM;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HARDWARE; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

TESTBEDS;

EID: 84860516693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2185677.2185685     Document Type: Conference Paper

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