Macroscopic Analysis of Adaptive Task Allocation in Robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1951-1956

  Lerman, Kristina ^a   Galstyan, Aram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE TASK ALLOCATION; BIOLOGICAL METAPHORS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0346872971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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