Cooperation issues and distributed sensing for multirobot systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1370-1382

  Pagello, Enrico ^a,b   D'Angelo, Antonio ^b,c   Menegatti, Emanuele ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cooperative behaviors; Distributed sensing; Distributed vision system; Multirobot systems; RoboCup middle size league competitions

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MICROSENSORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIORS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; DISTRIBUTED VISION SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; ROBOCUP MIDDLE-SIZE LEAGUE COMPETITIONS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947211747     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2006.876919     Document Type: Article

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