Learning to role-switch in multi-robot systems

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2727-2734

  Martinson, Eric ^a   Arkin, Ronald C ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi robot systems; Q learning; Role switching

Indexed keywords

FINITE AUTOMATA; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOT LEARNING; STATE SPACE METHODS;

MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; Q-LEARNING; ROLE SWITCHING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0344014098     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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