A distributed control architecture for autonomous mobile robots - implementation of the Karlsruhe Multi-Agent Robot Architecture (KAMARA)

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 411-431

  Laengle, Thomas ^a   Lueth, Tim C ^a   Rembold, Ulrich ^a   Woern, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MANIPULATORS; MOTION PLANNING;

KARLSRUHE MULTIAGENT ROBOT ARCHITECTURE (KAMARA);

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032308245     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855398X00271     Document Type: Article

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