The problem of coordination and consensus achievement in groups of autonomous mobile robots with limited communication

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1094-1102

  Savkin, Andrey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HYBRID DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LIMITED COMMUNICATIONS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33744756031     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.na.2005.10.031     Document Type: Article

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