Explorability of noisy scalar fields

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 6439-6444

  Wu, Wencen ^a   Zhang, Fumin ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOBILE AGENTS; NOISE ABATEMENT;

FIELD VALUES; MOBILE SENSING AGENTS; SCALAR FIELDS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SUFFICIENT AND NECESSARY CONDITION;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84860671848     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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