Coordinated multi-robot exploration through unsupervised clustering of unknown space

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 717-721

  Solanas, Agusti ^a   Garcia, Miguel Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; UNSUPERVISED CLUSTERING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14044254233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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