Coordinated movement of multiple robots for searching a cluttered environment

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 400-405

  Ng, Wee Kiat ^a   Leng, Gerard S B ^a   Low, Yee Leong ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coordinated movement; Distributed algorithm; Multiple robots; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; ONLINE SEARCHING; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

COORDINATED MOVEMENT; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14044272861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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