Blind Bulldozing: Multiple Robot Nest Construction

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 2010-2015

  Parker, Chris A C ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Kube, C Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR CELL ARRAYS;

ROBOTIC BULLDOZERS; ROBOTIC MISSIONS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0348040377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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