A multi-agent architecture with cooperative fuzzy control for a mobile robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 881-891

  Innocenti, Bianca ^a   López, Beatriz ^a   Salvi, Joaquim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed coordination; Fuzzy logic; Mobile robotics; Multi agent architectures

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

ASYNCHRONOUS BEHAVIORS; COGNITIVE CAPACITIES; COOPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 35649006771     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2007.07.007     Document Type: Article

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