When good comms go bad: Communications recovery for multi-robot teams

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3727-3734

  Ulam, Patrick ^a   Arkin, Ronald C ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ad hoc networks; Behavioral sequencing; Communications recovery; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASERS; MANIPULATORS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

AD-HOC NETWORK; BEHAVIORAL SEQUENCING; COMMUNICATIONS RECOVERY; MULTI ROBOT SYSTEM;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042547205     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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