Towards the deployment of a mobile robot network with end-to-end performance guarantees

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2085-2090

  Hsieh, Mong Ying A ^a   Cowley, Anthony ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Taylor, Camillo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END-TO-END COMMUNICATION LINKS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; POINT-TO-POINT SIGNAL STRENGTH; SURVEILLANCE;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SEARCH ENGINES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845668401     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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