CS Freiburg: Coordinating robots for successful soccer playing

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 685-699

  Weigel, Thilo ^a   Gutmann, Jens Steffen ^b   Dietl, Markus ^a   Kleiner, Alexander ^a   Nebel, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous mobile robots; Cooperative sensing and acting; Multiagent systems; Robot soccer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ROBOT SOCCER;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036817669     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.804041     Document Type: Article

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