A real-time cooperative sweeping strategy for multiple cleaning robots

IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 660-665

  Luo, Chaomin ^a   Yang, Simon X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION PLANNING; NEURAL NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; TIME VARYING CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COOPERATIVE SWEEPING STRATEGY; MULTIPLE CLEANING ROBOTS; SHUNTING NEURAL EQUATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0036915711     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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