A new curriculum on planning and cooperative control of autonomous mobile robots

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 804-814

  Qu, Zhihua ^a   Wu, Xiaohe ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Course offerings; Curriculum development; Intelligent systems; Laboratory components

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748084740     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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