Energy and autonomous urban land vehicles

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 28-38

  Folsom, Tyler C ^a  

^a QUEST INTEGRATED INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL VEHICLE; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS; LAND VEHICLES; SOCIAL IMPLICATION;

ENGINEERING; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84862292059     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2012.2196339     Document Type: Article

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