Distributed multi-robot coordination in area exploration

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 945-955

  Sheng, Weihua ^a   Yang, Qingyan ^b   Tan, Jindong ^c   Xi, Ning ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iteris Inc   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploration; Multi robot coordination

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

BIDDING ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED BIDDING MODELS; EXPLORATION; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 33846007698     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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