Improving cost estimation in market-based coordination of a distributed sensing task

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 240-245

  Dias, M Bernardine ^a   Ghanem, Bernard ^a   Stentz, Anthony ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Market based; Multirobot coordination

Indexed keywords

COST ESTIMATE; COST ESTIMATIONS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING TASKS; LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MARKET-BASED; MARKET-BASED APPROACH; MULTI-ROBOT TEAMS; MULTIROBOT COORDINATION; ON-LINE MODIFICATION; PATH-PLANNING ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMMERCE; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548478613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1544988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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