On the design of behavior-based multi-robot teams

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 547-578

  Parker, Lynne E ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; RELIABILITY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

MULTI ROBOT COOPERATION; MULTI ROBOT TEAMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0030402156     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855396X00228     Document Type: Article

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