Large-scale path planning for underwater gliders in ocean currents

Proceedings of the 2009 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, ACRA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Rao, Dushyant ^a   Williams, Stefan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID BASED METHOD; HIGH ENERGY; LONG DISTANCES; RAPIDLY-EXPLORING RANDOM TREES; REDUCED VELOCITY; UNDERWATER GLIDERS;

GLIDERS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

EID: 84863400947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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