Simultaneous area search and task assignment for a team of cooperative agents

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Curtis, J Willard ^a   Murphey, Robert ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ENGINEERING;

COOPERATIVE AGENTS; COORDINATED SEARCH; COORDINATION STRATEGY; MULTI-AGENT APPLICATIONS; STRONG COUPLING; TASK ASSIGNMENT; TWO-STAGE ALGORITHM; UNIFIED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85088346215     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2003-5584     Document Type: Conference Paper

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