Call of duty: Self-organized task allocation in a population of up to twelve mobile robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-84

  Krieger, Michael J B ^a   Billeter, Jean Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTION PLANNING; ROBOTICS;

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; SELF-ORGANIZED TASK ALLOCATIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0033900239     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8890(99)00065-2     Document Type: Article

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