Heterogeneous teams of modular robots for mapping and exploration

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 293-308

  Grabowski, Robert ^a   Navarro Serment, Luis E ^a   Paredis, Christiaan J J ^a   Khosla, Pradeep K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; INFRARED DETECTORS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SONAR; TRACKING (POSITION);

BAYESIAN MAPPING ALGORITHM; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT; INFRARED SENSOR; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; MILLIBOTS;

MODULAR ROBOTS;

EID: 0034206546     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008933826411     Document Type: Article

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