Market-based multirobot coordination: A survey and analysis

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1257-1270

  Bernardine Dias, M ^a,b   Zlot, Robert ^a,b   Kalra, Nidhi ^a,b   Stentz, Anthony ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Auctions; Market based coordination; Multirobot teams; Resource allocation; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; MICROELECTRONICS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

MARKET-BASED COORDINATION; MULTIROBOT TEAMS; TASK ALLOCATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33947196760     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.876939     Document Type: Review

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