AMADEUS: A mobile, autonomous decentralized utility system for indoor transportation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 1998, Pages 2229-2236

  Kamada, Toru ^a   Oikawa, Koichi ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bidirectional control; Collision avoidance; Costs; Mobile robots; Production facilities; Production systems; Remotely operated vehicles; Routing; Space vehicles; Transportation

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COSTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; ROBOTICS; TRANSPORTATION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; PRODUCTION FACILITY; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; ROUTING; SPACE VEHICLES; UTILITY SYSTEMS; VEHICLE ALLOCATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

AUTOMATIC GUIDED VEHICLES (AGV); AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ALLOCATION;

EID: 0031644163     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.1998.680655     Document Type: Conference Paper

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