Task assignment for cooperating UAVs under radio propagation path loss constraints

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3278-3283

  Grotli, Esten Ingar ^a   Johansen, Tor Arne ^a  

^a Department of Engineering Cybernetics ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; HIGHWAY PLANNING; MOTION PLANNING; RADIO WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

COMMUNICATION CONSTRAINTS; HUMAN OPERATOR; MIXED-INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; OFFLINE PATH PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PROPAGATION PATHS; REAL-TIME TRANSFER; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84869385902     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2012.6315041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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