Hybrid control for large swarms of aquatic drones

Artificial Life 14 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, ALIFE 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 785-792

  Duarte, Miguel ^a   Oliveira, Sancho Moura ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOMIMETICS; DRONES;

ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPENSIVE EQUIPMENTS; HYBRID CONTROLS; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; PRE-PROGRAMMED CONTROL; ROBOTICS SYSTEMS; WILDLIFE MONITORING;

AIRCRAFT CONTROL;

EID: 84943285667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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