Outdoor flocking and formation flight with autonomous aerial robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3866-3873

  Vasarhelyi G ^a,b   Viragh Cs ^a   Somorjai, G ^a,b   Tarcai, N ^a,b   Szorenyi T ^a   Nepusz, T ^a   Vicsek, T ^a,b  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Statistical and Biological Physics Research Group of HAS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTENNAS; DATA HANDLING; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL METHODS; OBJECT TRACKING; TARGET TRACKING;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; DECENTRALIZED AUTONOMOUS CONTROL; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; ERROR-PRONE ENVIRONMENTS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; PHYSICAL MODELLING; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; STABLE FORMATION FLIGHT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84911499555     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2014.6943105     Document Type: Conference Paper

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