Coordinated path planning for multiple robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 125-152

  Švestka, Petr ^a   Overmars, Mark H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Car like robots; Motion planning; Road maps

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; MOTION PLANNING; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CAR LIKE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032473780     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(97)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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