Explicit communication in designing efficient cooperative mobile robotic system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 3869-3874

  Lam, Y K ^a   Wong, E K ^a   Loo, C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cooperative mobile robots; Explicit communication; Foraging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

COOPERATIVE MOBILE ROBOTS; INTER AGENT COMMUNICATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344896626     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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