An analysis of coordination in multi-robot systems

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1487-1492

  Farinelli, Alessandro ^a   Iocchi, Luca ^a   Nardi, Daniele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Coordination; Multi robot system

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COOPERATION; COORDINATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEM;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0242576302     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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