Information merging in multi-UAV cooperative search

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3122-3129

  Khan, Asif ^a   Yanmaz, Evsen ^a   Rinner, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERGING;

COMMUNICATION RANGE; COOPERATIVE SEARCH; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; INFORMATION MERGING; LOCAL OBSERVATIONS; REALISTIC LIMITATION; STATIONARY TARGETS; TARGET EXISTENCES;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 84929207244     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907308     Document Type: Conference Paper

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