Robot group formations: a dynamic programming approach for a shortest path computation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 4, Issue , 2000, Pages 3152-3157

  Gentili, Federico ^a   Martinelli, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMATION PATHS; PATH COST INDEX; RIGID FORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; GRAPH THEORY; HEURISTIC METHODS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 0033706379     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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