Modeling and optimal centralized control of a large-size robotic population

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1280-1285

  Milutinović, Dejan ^a,b   Lima, Pedro ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hybrid automata; Multirobot systems; Optimal control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE AUTOMATA; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; ROBOTICS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

HYBRID AUTOMATA; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845542857     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.882941     Document Type: Article

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