Adaptive spatio-temporal organization in groups of robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 1044-1049

  Dahl, Torbjørn S ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COOPERATIVE ROBOTS; MULTIPLE ROBOT SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 0036453418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/IRDS.2002.1041529     Document Type: Article

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