Coordinated standoff tracking of groups of moving targets using multiple UAVs

2013 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED 2013 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 969-977

  Oh, Hyondong ^a   Kim, Seungkeun ^b   Shin, Hyo Sang ^c   Tsourdos, Antonios ^c   White, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SEPARATION; GUIDANCE COMMANDS; MULTIPLE-GROUP; RADIAL VELOCITY; SENSING CONFIGURATION; STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); SUBOPTIMAL SOLUTION; TARGET CLUSTERING;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 84885208309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MED.2013.6608839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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