Aerial vehicle path planning for monitoring wildfire frontiers

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 113, Issue , 2016, Pages 455-467

  Skeele, Ryan C ^a   Hollinger, Geoffrey A ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

AUTONOMOUS MONITORING; BRITISH THERMAL UNITS; FIRE SIMULATORS; INCIDENT COMMANDER; K-MEANS CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; MONITORING ALGORITHMS; POINTS OF INTEREST; REAL-WORLD IMPLEMENTATION;

FIRES;

EID: 84961245681     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27702-8_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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