Complex task allocation for multiple robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 1515-1522

  Zlot, Robert ^a   Stentz, Anthony ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multirobot coordination; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS;

MULTIPLE ROBOTS; MULTIROBOT COORDINATION; TASK ALLOCATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846125278     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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