Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences

Volumn 309, Issue , 2005, Pages 25-42

  Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a,b   Kemp, Mathieu ^c   Marthaler, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Nekton Research LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL BOUNDARIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS (PDE); POSITION INFORMATION; REAL-TIME MOTION PLANNING; STATIONARY ENVIRONMENTS;

EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84866357053     PISSN: 01708643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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