A framework for coordination in multi-robot systems

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 483-489

  Wang, Zhenglu ^a   Tianfield, Huaglory ^a   Jiang, Ping ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTS;

MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; TYPICAL APPLICATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 34047181363     PISSN: 19354576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INDIN.2003.1300383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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