UAV coordination on convex curves in wind: An environmental sampling application

2009 European Control Conference, ECC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 4967-4972

  Techy, Laszlo ^a   Paley, Derek A ^b   Woolsey, Craig A ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SAMPLING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

CIRCULAR SAMPLINGS; CONTROL VOLUMES; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING; EXTERNAL FLOW FIELDS; FLIGHT PATTERNS; MINIMUM TIME; REINITIALIZATION; SAMPLING PROBLEMS;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 84955206695     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/ecc.2009.7075187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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