Multi-robot collaboration for robust exploration

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 1-4, 2001, Pages 7-40

  Rekleitis, Ioannis ^a   Dudek, Gregory ^a   Milios, Evangelos ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative localization; Exploration; Mapping; Multiple robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035611416     PISSN: 10122443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016636024246     Document Type: Article

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