Automatic synthesis of communication-based coordinated multi-robot systems

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 381-387

  Jones, Chris ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; ROBOTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DACT-NOIS-COMM CONTROLLER; INTER-ROBOT COMMUNICATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS (MRS); REAL-ROBOT DEMONSTRATIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 14044276400     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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