Value-based action selection for exploration and dynamic target observation with robot teams

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 4190-4197

  Stroupe, Ashley W ^a   Ravichandran, Ramprasad ^b   Balch, Tucker ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic environments; Multi robot exploration

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MAPPING; OSCILLATIONS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TARGETS; TRAJECTORIES;

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; KALMAN-BUCY FILTERS (KBF); MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; SINGLE-ROBOT PLANNING; TASK ALLOCATION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042583827     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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