A learning market based layered multi-robot architecture

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3417-3422

  Lin, Liu ^a   Lei, Wang ^b   Zheng, Zhiqiang ^a   Sun, Zengqi ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEARNING MARKETS; MULTI-ROBOTS; ROBOT ARCHITECTURES; ROBOT RATE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 3042695962     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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