Health aware stochastic planning for persistent package delivery missions using quadrotors

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3389-3396

  Agha Mohammadi, Ali Akbar ^a   Ure, N Kemal ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a   Vian, John ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

LOCAL LINEARIZATION; LONG DURATION; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PACKAGE DELIVERY; PLANNING PROBLEM; PLANNING SCHEME; SEARCH METHOD; STOCHASTIC PLANNING;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84911478596     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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