Unmanned ground and aerial vehicles in extended range indoor and outdoor missions

2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2014 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 374-382

  Cocchioni, Francesco ^a   Pierfelice, Valerio ^a   Benini, Alessandro ^a   Mancini, Adriano ^a   Frontoni, Emanuele ^a   Zingaretti, Primo ^a   Ippoliti, Gianluca ^a   Longhi, Sauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MOBILE AGENTS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

AUTO GENERATIONS; DOCKING STATION; FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES; GROUND CONTROL STATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES; VISUAL POSITION;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84904582437     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUAS.2014.6842276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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