High-speed flight in an ergodic forest

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2899-2906

  Karaman, Sertac ^a   Frazzoli, Emilio ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; FORESTRY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MOTION PLANNING; REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS; SOLVENTS; SPEED; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; TRAJECTORIES;

CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; COLLISION-FREE TRAJECTORY; HIGH SPEED FLIGHT; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; PLANNING ALGORITHMS; ROBOT MOTION PLANNING; TECHNICAL CONDITIONS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; ROBOTS; SOLVENTS;

EID: 84864482815     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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