Winning the DARPA UAVForge Challenge 2012-Team HALO

Unmanned Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-175

  Prior, S D ^a   Shen, S T ^b   Erbil, M A ^a   Brazinskas, M ^a   Mielniczek, W P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

crowd sourcing; DARPA; multi rotor; NLOS; SSC Atlantic; sUAS; UAVForge

Indexed keywords

MILITARY APPLICATIONS; NAVAL WARFARE;

DARPA; NLOS; SSC ATLANTIC; SUAS; UAVFORGE;

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

EID: 85016807686     PISSN: 23013850     EISSN: 23013869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S2301385013400013     Document Type: Article

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