Task Modelling in Collective Robotics

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-72

  Kube, C Ronald ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective robotics; Mobile robots; Multirobot system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FINITE AUTOMATA; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SENSORS;

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEM; PERCEPTUAL CUES; TASK MODELLING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0030704169     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008859119831     Document Type: Article

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