Experiments with a large heterogeneous mobile robot team: Exploration, mapping, deployment and detection

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 431-447

  Howard, Andrew ^a   Parker, Lynne E ^b   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deployment; Exploration; Multi robot systems; Simultaneous localization and mapping

Indexed keywords

DEPLOYMENT; EXPLORATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SIMULTANEOUS LOCALIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAPPING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTS; TELECOMMUNICATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33646693175     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: 17413176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0278364906065378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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