Simple auctions with performance guarantees for multi-robot task allocation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 698-705

  Lagoudakis, Michail G ^a   Berhault, Marc ^a   Koenig, Sven ^b   Keskinocak, Pinar ^b   Kleywegt, Anton J ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI-ROBOT SIMULATORS; MULTI-ROBOT TASK ALLOCATION; TASK ALLOCATION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SIMULATORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14044273705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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