Dynamically formed heterogeneous robot teams performing tightly-coordinated tasks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 570-575

  Jones, E Gil ^a   Browning, Brett ^a   Dias, M Bernardine ^a   Argall, Brenna ^a   Veloso, Manuela ^a   Stentz, Anthony ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATED TASKS; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT TEAMS; PICKUP TEAMS; ROBOT TECHNOLOGY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33845679964     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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