Territorial multi-robot task division

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 815-822

  Schneider Fontán, Miguel ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior based control; Distributed control; Multi robot systems; Robotics; Task division

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEM;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032187823     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.720357     Document Type: Article

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