CAMPOUT: A control architecture for tightly coupled coordination of multirobot systems for planetary surface exploration

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 550-559

  Huntsberger, Terry ^a   Pirjanian, Paolo ^b   Trebi Ollennu, Ashitey ^a   Nayar, Harii Das ^c   Aghazarian, Hrand ^a   Ganino, Anthony J ^a   Garrett, Mike ^a   Joshi, Sanjay S ^d   Schenker, Paul S ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Evolution Robotics Inc   (United States)

^c OphirTech   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control architecture; Multiple mobile robots; Robot outposts; Tight coordination

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PLANETARY LANDERS; ROBOTIC ARMS; ROBOTICS;

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; PLANETARY SURFACE EXPLORATION; ROBOT OUTPOSTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344961687     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2003.817398     Document Type: Article

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