Multi-robot exploration under the constraints of wireless networking

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-445

  Rooker, Martijn N ^a   Birk, Andreas ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ad hoc network; Autonomous mobile robots; Exploration; Manet; Robot team; Role based control

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTS;

MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; ROBOT TEAM; ROLE-BASED CONTROL; WIRELESS NETWORKING;

ROBOTICS;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; POSITION CONTROL; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

EID: 33846299965     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.08.007     Document Type: Article

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