Cooperative task excecution of a search and rescue mission by a multi-robot team

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-329

  Shiroma, Naoji ^a,b   Chiu, Y U Huan ^b   Sato, Noritaka ^b   Matsuno, Fumitoshi ^a,b  

^a International Rescue System Institute   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative activities; Multi robot team; Rescue; Robots

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ROBOTICS; SIMULATORS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STAIRS;

COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES; MULTI-ROBOT TEAM; RESCUE ROBOTS; SEARCH AND RESCUE TASKS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 17044409208     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568553053583670     Document Type: Article

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