Autonomous capabilities for small unmanned aerial systems conducting radiological response: Findings from a high-fidelity discovery experiment

Journal of Field Robotics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 522-536

  Duncan, Brittany A ^a   Murphy, Robin R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN;

AUTONOMOUS CAPABILITY; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; BACKGROUND RADIATION; GUIDANCE AND CONTROL; RADIOLOGICAL DISASTERS; RADIOLOGICAL SOURCES; SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS; UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84902255720     PISSN: 15564959     EISSN: 15564967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rob.21503     Document Type: Article

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