A multi-robot approach to stealthy navigation in the presence of an observer

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 2379-2385

  Tews, Ashley D ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Component; Multi robot; Navigation; Outdoor environments; Potential fields; Stealth

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAPS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; PROBABILITY; SENSORS;

MULTI-ROBOT; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; POTENTIAL FIELDS; STEALTH;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042629839     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1307417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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