Enhancing the awareness of decentralized cooperative mobile robots through active perceptual anchoring

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 450-462

  Guirnaldo, Sherwin A ^a,b   Watanabe, Keigo ^a   Izumi, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Awareness; Decentralized control; Mobile cooperative robots; Perception

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

AWARENESS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE COOPERATIVE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 10244261697     PISSN: 15986446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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