Constructing radio signal strength maps with multiple robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 4184-4189

  Hsieh, Mong Ying A ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Camillo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

MULTIPLE ROBOTS; RADIO CONNECTIVITY MAPS; RADIO SIGNALS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042669621     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308928     Document Type: Conference Paper

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