Self-organizing planner for multiple mobile robot exploration and patrol

Intelligent Autonomous Systems 9, IAS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 622-631

  Trevai, Chomchana ^a   Ota, Jun ^a   Arai, Tamio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coverage; Exploration; Multiple mobile robots; Patrolling; Reaction diffusion equation on a graph

Indexed keywords

COVERAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; FLOOR CLEANING; MAP BUILDING; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; PATROLLING; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SECURITY PATROLS; SELF ORGANIZING;

LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34547512612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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