A taxonomy for multi-agent robotics

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 375-397

  Dudek, Gregory ^a,c   Jenkin, Michael R M ^b,d   Milios, Evangelos ^b   Wilkes, David ^b,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c School of Computer Science

^d Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science

^e ONTARIO HYDRO TECHNOLOGIES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobile robotics; Robotic collectives

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DECISION TABLES; DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS;

MULTI-AGENT ROBOTICS; ROBOTIC COLLECTIVES; TAXONOMY;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 0030397903     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00240651     Document Type: Article

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