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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Tsourdos, Antonios.
Cooperative path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles / Antonios Tsourdos,
Brian White, Madhavan Shanmugavel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-74129-0 (cloth)
1. Drone aircraft–Automatic control. 2. Guidance systems (Flight)
3. Airplanes–Piloting–Mathematics. 4. Airplanes–Piloting–Planning.
5. Airways–Mathematical models. I. White, Brian, 1947 June 6-
II. Shanmugavel, Madhavan. III. Title.
TL589.4.T78 2010
629.132’5 – dc22
2010026275
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