Wind-energy based path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Markov Decision Processes

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 784-789

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

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT DURATION; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; PATH-BASED; PLANNED PATHS; TARGET POINT; TIME VARYING; WIND FIELD;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

FLIGHT PATHS;

EID: 84887284104     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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