An intelligent inference engine for autonomous aerial vehicles

24th Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 650-660

  Krishnamurthy, Karthik ^a   Ward, Donald T ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENGINES; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TRAINING AIRCRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS AIRCRAFT; INFERENCE SYSTEMS; KEY ELEMENTS; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; SIMULATED FLIGHT; SITUATION AWARENESS; STATE VARIABLES; TRAINING DATA;

FUZZY INFERENCE;

EID: 84960510309     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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