Approach towards decentralized control of cooperating non-autonomous multiple robots

Robotica

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 495-504

  Munawar, Khalid ^b   Esashi, Masayoshi ^a   Uchiyama, Masaru ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); SENSORS;

MULTIPLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0034269587     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574799002386     Document Type: Article

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