An adaptive path planning algorithm is presented for cooperating unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) that are used to deploy and operate land-based sensor networks. The algorithm employs a global cost function to generate paths for the UAVs, and adapts the paths to exceptions that might occur. Examples are provided of the paths and adaptation.
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Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference on
(Volume:4
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Date of Conference: 2001