Experimental demonstration of coordinated control for multi-vehicle teams

International Journal of Systems Science

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 385-398

  King, Ellis ^a   Kuwata, Yoshiaki ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordinated control; Multi vehicle control; Task assignment; Trajectory design; UAV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993715408     PISSN: 00207721     EISSN: 14645319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207720600798320     Document Type: Article

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