Extending persistent monitoring by combining ocean models and Markov Decision Processes

OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Al Sabban, Wesam H ^a   Gonzalez, Luis F ^a   Smith, Ryan N ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD TRIAL; HIGH VARIABILITY; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN PROCESS; PATH EXECUTION; SIMULATION PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME VARYING; TIME-PERIODS; UNDERWATER GLIDERS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84873599805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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