Sharing charging stations for long-term activity of autonomous robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2746-2751

  Michaud, François ^a   Robichaud, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAPH THEORY; GRIPPERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

CHARGING STATION; POWER SOURCE; RECHARGING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036453829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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