Guest editorial advances in multirobot systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 655-661

  Arai, Tamio ^a   Pagello, Enrico ^b   Parker, Lynne E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c The University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative robotics; Distributed robotics; Multirobot systems; Survey

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036817725     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRA.2002.806024     Document Type: Review

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