A multi-robot system for continuous area sweeping tasks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 1724-1729

  Ahmadi, Mazda ^a   Stone, Peter ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS AREA SWEEPING; COST FUNCTION; DYNAMIC FACTORS; PHYSICAL ROBOTS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SURVEYING; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845626623     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641955     Document Type: Conference Paper

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