A multiagent approach to qualitative landmark-based navigation

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-154

  Busquets, Dídac ^a   Sierra, Carles ^a   López de Màntaras, Ramon ^a  

^a ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bidding mechanisms; Fuzzy arithmetics; Multiagent architecture; Qualitative navigation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FUZZY CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

FUZZY ARITHMETICS; QUALITATIVE LANDMARK BASED NAVIGATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0142008552     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025536924463     Document Type: Article

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