Docking station relocation for maximizing longevity of distributed robotic teams

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 2436-2441

  Drenner, Andrew ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ROBOTIC TEAMS; DOCKING STATION RELOCATION; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTS; MANIPULATION EQUIPMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOCKING; MANIPULATORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845679905     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1642067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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