UAV swarm coordination using cooperative control for establishing a wireless communications backbone

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1157-1164

  Sivakumar, Achudhan ^a   Tan, Colin Keng Yan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Disaster relief; DTN; Swarm coordination; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; DECENTRALISED; DISASTER RELIEF; DTN; GROUND STATIONS; SWARM COORDINATION; TEAMWORK; WIRELESS BACKBONE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS SIGNALS;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS;

EID: 84899444044     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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