Cooperative behaviors in multi-robot systems through implicit communication

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 65-77

  Pagello, Enrico ^a,b   D'Angelo, Antonio ^c   Montesello, Federico ^a   Garelli, Francesco ^a   Ferrari, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Istituto di Ingeneria Biomedica del CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; ROBOT COORDINATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0033319022     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00039-1     Document Type: Article

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