An adaptive task assignment method for multiple mobile robots via swarm intelligence approach

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 415-420

  Zhang, Dandan ^a   Xie, Guangming ^a   Yu, Junzhi ^a   Wang, Long ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Learning; Swarm intelligence; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

LEARNING; ROBOT GROUPS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 28444456308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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