Efficiency and optimization of explicit and implicit communication schemes in collaborative robotics experiments

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2795-2800

  Easton, Kjerstin I ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIMULATORS;

COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; INFRARED SIGNALLING; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0036453350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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