A paradigm for dynamic coordination of multiple robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-21

  Chaimowicz, Luiz ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Campos, Mario F M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cooperative robotics; Multi robot coordination

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; MANIPULATORS; POSITION CONTROL; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; ROBOT POSITIONING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3142768471     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AURO.0000032935.30271.a5     Document Type: Article

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