Cooperative search with autonomous vehicles in a 3D aquatic testbed

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3154-3160

  Keeter, Matthew ^a   Moore, Daniel ^a   Muller, Ryan ^a   Nieters, Eric ^a   Flenner, Jennifer ^b   Martonosi, Susan E ^a   Bertozzi, Andrea L ^c   Percus, Allon G ^b   Levy, Rachel ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE CONTROL; TESTBEDS;

COOPERATIVE SEARCH; DISPLAY PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONS; POINT TO POINT; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RANDOMIZED ALGORITHMS; RELIABLE COMMUNICATION; SYSTEMATIC SEARCHES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES;

EID: 84869474562     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2012.6314965     Document Type: Conference Paper

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