Towards decentralization of multi-robot navigation functions

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 4132-4137

  Tanner, Herbert G ^a   Kumar, Amit ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CONVERGENCE; MOBILE AGENTS; MULTI-ROBOT NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION FUNCTION;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY; MOTION CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33846182257     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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