Simulation and control of distributed robot search teams

Computers and Electrical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 625-642

  Dollarhide, Robert L ^a,b   Agah, Arvin ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed robotics; Evolutionary robotics; Multi agent systems; Robot search teams

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

SEARCH MISSIONS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0038184028     PISSN: 00457906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7906(01)00048-9     Document Type: Article

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