Communication-efficient dynamic task scheduling for heterogeneous multi-robot systems

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 230-235

  Shah, Kashyap ^b   Yan, Meng ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JOB ANALYSIS; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; TASK SCHEDULING ALGORITHM;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34948862843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2007.382855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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