Experiments in multirobot coordination

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-275

  Marshall, Joshua A ^a,d   Fung, Terence ^b   Broucke, Mireille E ^c   D'eleuterio, Gabriele M T ^b   Francis, Bruce A ^c  

^a MDA Consulting Limited Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MDA Space Mission of Brampton   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autonomous robots; Cooperative control; Multiagent coordination

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; MULTIAGENT COORDINATION;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DATA PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 32844468086     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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