Adaptive task assignment for multiple mobile robots via swarm intelligence approach

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 572-588

  Zhang, Dandan ^a   Xie, Guangming ^a   Yu, Junzhi ^a   Wang, Long ^a  

^a State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems   (China)

Author keywords

Learning; Swarm Intelligence; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 34248679900     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.01.008     Document Type: Article

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