FLIP: Prototyping multi-robot systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 230-243

  Jensen, Lars Kock ^a,c   Kristensen, Bent Bruun ^a   Demazeau, Yves ^a,b,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Institut IMAG 46   (France)

^c Maersk Institute   (Denmark)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e USD Faculty of Science and Engineering   (Denmark)

^f MAGMA Research Group on Multi agent System   (France)

Author keywords

Agent architecture; Autonomous robots; Intelligent manufacturing; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT ARCHITECTURE; AUTONOMOUS TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT MANUFACTURING; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 27844560548     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.012     Document Type: Article

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