BOAs: BackOff adaptive scheme for task allocation with fault tolerance and uncertainty management

IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 162-167

  Fua, Cheng Heng ^a   Ge, Shuzhi Sam ^a   Lim, Khiang Wee ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKOFF ADAPTIVE SCHEME (BOA); DECENTRALIZED DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHY; TASK UTILITY MATRIX (TUM);

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 20344386951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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