Localizing a robot with minimum travel

SIAM Journal on Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 583-604

  Dudek, Gregory ^a   Romanik, Kathleen ^b   Whitesides, Sue ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive strategy; Localization; Navigation; NP hard; Optimization; Positioning; Robot; Sensing; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013411157     PISSN: 00975397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0097539794279201     Document Type: Article

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