Cooperative exploration of mobile robots using reaction-diffusion equation on a graph

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2269-2274

  Trevai, Chomchana ^a   Fukazawa, Yusuke ^a   Ota, Jun ^a   Yuasa, Hideo ^a   Arai, Tamio ^a   Asama, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative exploration; Mobile robot; Reaction diffusion equation

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION; MOBILE ROBOTS EXPLORATION; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344445420     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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