An architecture for distributed cooperative planning in a behaviour-based multi-robot system

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 149-174

  Jung, David ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Zelinsky, Alexander ^a,d,e,i,j,k  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^f Lockheed Martin Energy Systems Inc   (United States)

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY   (United States)

^h Comp Sci and Mathematics Division ^*

ⁱ IEEE   (Australia)

^j Department of Computer Science ^*

^k Australian Robotics Automat Assoc   (Australia)

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Author keywords

ABBA; Action selection; Cleaning; Communication; Cooperation; Distributed planning; Navigation

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE FOR BEHAVIOR-BASED AGENTS (ABBA); DISTRIBUTED COOPERATIVE PLANNING; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033077420     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00066-9     Document Type: Article

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