Adaptive mapping and navigation by teams of simple robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 411-434

  Cohen, William W ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MAPPING; NAVIGATION; SENSORS;

CARTOGRAPHER ROBOT; COLLECTIVE MAPPING; COLLECTIVE NAVIGATION; NAVIGATOR ROBOT;

ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030261643     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0921-8890(96)00012-7     Document Type: Article

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