An incremental deployment algorithm for mobile robot teams

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2849-2854

  Howard, Andrew ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSORS;

INCREMENTAL DEPLOYMENT ALGORITHM; OBSTRUCTION; ROBOTS SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036453624     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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