A distributed architecture for executing complex tasks with multiple robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3449-3455

  Mäenpää, Topi ^a   Tikanmäki, Antti ^a   Riekki, Jukka ^a   Röning, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PRODUCT DESIGN; XML;

DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; FINITE STATE MACHINES (FSM); MODULARIZATION; MULTIPLE ROBOTS;

PROGRAMMABLE ROBOTS;

EID: 3042649657     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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