Decentralized Motion Planning for Multiple Mobile Robots: The Cocktail Party Model

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-135

  Lumelsky, V J ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Harinarayan, K R ^a,b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

^c TRAPEZNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CONTROL SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d ICS   (Russian Federation)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Soc's Tech Comm Robot Motion P   (United States)

^g SME ^*

^h ACM   (United States)

ⁱ INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Autonomous agents; Decentralized intelligence; Mobile robots; Robot motion planning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COCKTAIL PARTY MODEL; DECENTRALIZED INTELLIGENCE; DECENTRALIZED MOTION PLANNING;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0030713716     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008815304810     Document Type: Article

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