Grounded symbolic communication between heterogeneous cooperating robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 269-292

  Jung, David ^a   Zelinsky, Alexander ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS;

BEHAVIOR BASED SYSTEM; COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM; SYMBOL GROUNDING; SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0034206585     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008929609573     Document Type: Article

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